The need for trustworthy networking, reliable cloud access, and compliance with digital sovereignty requirements has increased substantially in recent years. These demands have been generally addressed by fragile, costly, and outdated models based on IP address evaluation. These requirements must also be considered within the stark geopolitical reality of data sovereignty, where national and regional laws increasingly restrict where data must reside and who can access it.We believe it is time to provide enhanced, identity-based mechanisms to satisfy these requirements and to address use cases that have seen their development limited by current practices. The end solution must address the concerns of development, security, and operations (DevSecOps) practitioners navigating sensitive customer data in financial services and healthcare, edge computing specialists dealing with securing massively distributed, physically insecure infrastructures, secure access service edge (SASE), and zero trust network access (ZTNA) security engineers . Our approach replaces permeable network perimeters with variable, attested, and stateful identities even when they do not have direct control of endpoint devices. As a demonstration, this article focuses on geospatial attributes, as a general application of the general pattern that can extend to other related cases.The problem: The IP address bottleneckThe legacy security model, built on IP address evaluation, creates a triple challenge:Costly and brittle: It forces significant investments in network appliances (firewalls, load balancers) and generates significant operational overhead. With dynamic IP addresses or name-to-address mappings in DNS constantly shifting, using IP based rules or logic often falls out of sync with underlying infrastructure.Slows innovation: Every infrastructure change, such as new service deployments, demands manual firewall updates, grinding development to a halt.Vulnerable: IP-based security offers a weak perimeter, susceptible to lateral movement once an attacker breaches the initial defences.