Given all the different possibilities regarding unique national identifiers for organisations in different places of the world, would it be an option to start by having a RIPE doc "The organisation object" with the current proposal, task the RIPE NCC with researching the field a bit more on the VAT, chamber of commerce, etc part, and then have a new RIPE doc "Extending the organisation object" in a few months? Experience with the use of the object is likely useful right now and would provide input for future fine tuning. Joao On Friday, Aug 29, 2003, at 19:17 Europe/Amsterdam, 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.
Hans Petter