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Shane Kerr
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Tue May 11 10:54:26 CEST 2004
Gert Doering wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 09:15:43AM +1200, Jason Everard wrote: > >>Having lived in Europe for most of my life, EU is not a country, rather >>a collection of countries. I'm not sure if it is just standard practice >>to list the European country under "EU", but wouldn't it be better to >>have "ES" for Espania? > > > In this context, "EU" means "multinational network in the RIPE region". > > It's not necessarily confined to actual EU countries, nor does it mean > "all of the EU" - just "more than one country so you can't easily tack > a single country code on it". > > This definition isn't perfect, but does the job... FYI: Because of the ambiguities in the meaning of the "country:" attribute when applied to a network, the Database Working Group recommended at the recent RIPE meeting to either get rid of "country:" completely, or at least to make it optional. -- Shane Kerr RIPE NCC
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