[db-wg] Country attribute to be removed?

On 28.05 06:45, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> From the RIPE 48 minutes provided by Nick Hyrka:
> 
> >DATABASE WORKING GROUP
> >
> >- It was agreed that the 'country:' attribute should be either removed or
> >be optional.
> 
> I was not at the meeting but reading over the PDF:
> http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-48/presentations/ripe48-db-country.pdf
> 
> I believe the consensus in db-wg was to add a ZZ code and *not* to drop the 
> country attribute totally.  Israel uses the country attribute to filter ISP 
> prefixes at its IIX:
> http://www.isoc.org.il/fr_reload.html?iix/2x_tech.4
> 
> When was it agreed to have it removed?

It seems I missed something. We on IRCnet use IP ranges from RIPE DB to
decide who to allow to log on our servers (someone already made automatic
import script)

Using DNS for this reason is VERY unreliable.
I agree that some data in RIPE db are incorrect, but dropping country
attribute or making it optional is imho not way to go.

Proposed solution 3 is imho the right way. 
And for users (which will now knot what do codes mean) a link to ISO3166
codes might be filled in

country: SK # see ISO3166 for more information about country codes)

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