[db-wg] NWI-10 Definition of Country

Peace,

On Mon, Oct 7, 2019, 12:30 PM ripedenis--- via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net> wrote:

> The DB-WG chairs have agreed to create "NWI-10 Definition of Country".
> This is an issue that has been debated many times over many years and needs
> a solution.
>

What particular issue is this a solution for?

The whole IP-to-country-code mapping story is and has always inevitably
been technologically MUBAR.  (Replacing "F" with "M" for "messed" only b/c
it's a public mailing list which kids may be reading.)  What is even more
important, there's no reason to even try to sort out that mess b/c
virtually any problem that could be solved with such a mapping either could
also be solved in a much more appropriate way without it, with the rest of
the data in RIPE DB available, or doesn't need a solution at all.

Having a company deciding by itself on what country code explains its
operations in the best way appears to work just fine.  OTOH, I can't notice
any particular benefit from populating the DB with a number of BVI or LUX
entries.

--
Töma
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