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This webinar will provide an overview of the workshop sponsored by the IETF IAB, IAB Workshop on IP Address Geolocation (ipgeows), which examined how IP-based geolocation is widely used today for applications such as content delivery, compliance, and network optimization, while highlighting its inherent limitations in accuracy, reliability, and user privacy. The session will explore current industry use cases, gaps in existing geolocation mechanisms, and the architectural challenges of relying on IP addresses for location inference, as well as discuss forward-looking approaches—including alternative, privacy-preserving location signals and improved data distribution methods—that aim to better meet enterprise, regulatory, and operational needs in modern Internet environments.

Link to workshop: IAB Workshop on IP Address Geolocation (ip-geo) (ipgeows)

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Jason Livingood serves as Vice President of Technology Policy, Product & Standards at Comcast. He leads Comcast’s efforts in developing & deploying new open standards, supporting applied R&D via collaboration with the research community, engaging with governments, regulators, and other external key stakeholders on Technology Policy issues, and providing leadership on end user product technology roadmaps.

Jason joined Comcast in 1996 to help a small team transition from field trials to launching the high-speed Internet service business. He and a small team of colleagues later co-founded Comcast’s business class Internet services and he’s also been instrumental in the creation of Xfinity Voice, Xfinity Home and Xfinity WiFi. He has held a wide range of roles at the company, including in architecture, engineering, operations, software development, DevOps, and product management.

He also serves as on the Internet Architecture Board and serves or has served in a wide range of other industry technical groups.