There was an implication in your mail that no WHOIS records should have ZZ. There are specific reasons *some* WHOIS records have ZZ. I understand you want *delegated* WHOIS records to have valid economies. FYI the readme of delegated-extened and the non-exteded delegated statistics files for the RIR (and the # comments) are very clear that the *intent* of the economy field in these compressed reports, is not Geolocation of the IP ranges, but is about the entity registration. The Organization object may be doing a better job of accounting for that, but changing Both format, and semantic intent of things like the delegated statistics report is a complex, tedious process. -George On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 8:38 AM Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg <db-wg@ripe.net> wrote:
In message <CAKr6gn1QRwJrnjD+tqFth8SJ5x=EyTi=Np36V_ctaxpASjFnnw@mail.gmail.com>, George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org> wrote:
As a point of information, APNIC uses cc "ZZ" specifically for unallocated and "stub" (outward transferred) records.
ZZ is an ISO3166 assigned code for "unknown"
Thank you for pointing this out.
It is an interesting point of curiosity, but as I am sure you realize, this particular small factoid neither rebutts nor dininishes my basic thesis, which is (a) that all resource and organization records should have a country: and (b) that the values in these country: fields should obey either some generally accepted and recognized standard (e.g. ISO 3166) or at the very least some well defined and well documented convention.
Regards, rfg