Re: [db-wg] Change of Country entries in the database

[Daniel Karrenberg <]

On 10.10 11:20, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> > Indeed, because of this reason, it might be good idea to obsolete
> > "country:" attribute in the inetnums. What do you think about
> > this?
> 
> Please don't.  99.9% accurate info is better than 0% info.

I agree with Hank. One has to clearly differentiate between *hard* info
that needs as close to 100% accuracy as one can get, and *soft* info that
is still useful even when full accuracy cannot be guaranteed. 

Examples of hard info are address space allocation and assignment chains.
country: is an example of soft info.

Removing an attribute because its information is becoming too soft should
only be done when the usefulness is much less than the current country:.

Daniel
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