[ncc-services-wg] Re: [db-wg] The New "organisation object" Proposal

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Hans Petter Holen wrote:

> > I think that this is something too specific to have its own attribute.
> > "remarks:" attribute can be used for this I guess, just like it can
> > be used to point users to web pages etc.
> 
> I dont agree: the point about the attribute would be to uniquely identify
> the organisation within a country. I am quite shure all countries within
> the EU has this concept of org-number/vat number or public registry
> number. The good thing is that it stays unique and lives trough name
> changes.

Idon't agree. Probably it is tru for the 15 EU countries. Wether it is 
true for the 91 countries in the RIPE NCC region - I don't know.

  Rob

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> Hans Petter
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