[db-wg] country codes in the RIPE Database (was: ORGANISATION country code)
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Sylvain Baya
abscoco at gmail.com
Thu Jan 26 17:46:59 CET 2023
Dear RIPE DBWG, Hope this email finds you in good health! Please see my comment below, inline... Le mardi 24 janvier 2023, denis walker via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net> a écrit : > Colleagues > > [...] > > Most people seem to assume it can be reliably used for geolocation > purposes. That would be the most obvious use case for this attribute. > Entering an optional value would signify that all the addresses in > this block are used within the geographical boundary of the country > defined by the code. Where the addresses are used in multiple > countries, it may be possible to show this at the assignment object > level. Otherwise the optional country: attribute could be omitted and > the geolocation information would be determined by the geofeed: > attribute. > > Hi Denis, Thanks for your email, brother! imho: ...no need to ommit it; if it's possible to (i) interpret country: attribute values as default, when it exist, for INET(6)NUM objects without geofeed: attribute values; and (ii) give priority to geofeed: attribute values against country: ones. Shalom, --sb. > This issue has been discussed many times over the last couple of > decades. Most recently during the discussion over NWI-10 in Oct/Nov > 2019 and early in 2020 on this mailing list. I think it is long > overdue for a resolution... > > cheers > denis > co-chair DB-WG > > > On Thu, 12 Jan 2023 at 15:42, Havard Eidnes <he at uninett.no> wrote: > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > -- Best Regards ! __ baya.sylvain[AT cmNOG DOT cm]|<https://cmnog.cm/dokuwiki/Structure> Subscribe to Mailing List: <https://lists.cmnog.cm/mailman/listinfo/cmnog/> __ #LASAINTEBIBLE|#Romains15:33«Que LE #DIEU de #Paix soit avec vous tous! #Amen!» #MaPrière est que tu naisses de nouveau. #Chrétiennement «Comme une biche soupire après des courants d’eau, ainsi mon âme soupire après TOI, ô DIEU!»(#Psaumes42:2) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/attachments/20230126/3e54eef5/attachment-0001.html>
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