Re:correlating IP addresses to physical locations (Score 1)

it should be easy for them to decypher the naming conventions used by ATT, Sprint, Verio, Teleglobe, Global Crossing, C&W, etc.

It turns out to be rather difficult to maintain a database like this one due to the natural growth and mergers of ISPs (anybody remember ebone?) and the ambiguity of place names like Rochester (Minnesota, not New York, in Qwest), Springfield (Massachussets, not Illinois in Sprint), Vienna (Austria or Virginia?), etc. Resolving these requires humans and humans take time.

Despite the challenge, research projects do decode these names to recover router locations, including Subramanian and Padmanabhan's Geotrack and UW's Rocketfuel. The tsunamii folks may be able to reuse these schemes to redraw their map with a better approximation to real network paths.