[db-wg] country codes in the RIPE Database (was: ORGANISATION country code)
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Leo Vegoda
leo at vegoda.org
Thu Jan 26 13:48:08 CET 2023
On Thu, 26 Jan 2023 at 03:55, denis walker via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net> wrote: > > Hi Ed > > Thanks for the explanation. But as I explained to Cynthia, "org-name:" > and "country:" are very different attributes. The org-name is just a > free text label by which an organisation is known. Whatever label is > specified, people know what its purpose is, even if the value is not > verified by the NCC. With country, the country codes have a well > defined meaning, but when entered by users no one knows what it's > purpose is. I think you have this the wrong way around. ISO 3166 has a well defined purpose: "The purpose of ISO 3166 is to define internationally recognized codes of letters and/or numbers that we can use when we refer to countries and their subdivisions." https://www.iso.org/iso-3166-country-codes.html What we are missing is a meaning for the application of these codes in the context of the RIPE database. But even if we started to define a meaning at this late stage, who would choose to use it?
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