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Engin Gunduz
engin at ripe.net
Tue May 11 10:57:04 CEST 2004
Hi, On 2004-05-11 09:40:10 +0200, 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... I'm not too sure about it. 'EU' is ambiguous here: does the data owner mean European Union? Or Europe as a continent? Or the RIPE service region? Or just 'many countries'? Unfortunately, we allow the code 'EU' without defining what it actually means in the RIPE Whois Database... In different inetnums/inet6nums it is used to mean different things. At the end of last year we had a discussion about this issue in the DB WG mailing list, which I tried to summarize in the last week's RIPE meeting in the DB WG session (http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-48/presentations/ripe48-db-country.pdf) We will post the outcome of the discussion that took place in the session later to db-wg and address-policy mailing lists. As far as I can remember, although there wasn't a real consensus, the working group advised to either remove "country:" attribute from inet(6)nums or make it optional. regards, -engin > Gert Doering > -- NetMaster > -- > Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 60210 (58081) > > SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster at Space.Net > Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 > 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-299 -- Engin Gunduz RIPE NCC Software Engineering Department
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