10 Oct
2003
10 Oct
'03
12:02 p.m.
On 10.10 11:20, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
Indeed, because of this reason, it might be good idea to obsolete "country:" attribute in the inetnums. What do you think about this?
Please don't. 99.9% accurate info is better than 0% info.
I agree with Hank. One has to clearly differentiate between *hard* info that needs as close to 100% accuracy as one can get, and *soft* info that is still useful even when full accuracy cannot be guaranteed. Examples of hard info are address space allocation and assignment chains. country: is an example of soft info. Removing an attribute because its information is becoming too soft should only be done when the usefulness is much less than the current country:. Daniel