[...] But people will start making assumptions about it, especially in the geo location area, as they have done for years with the also meaningless country values in INET(6)NUM objects.
Following up on the tangent of "contry" for inet(6)num objects: I realize that there are cases where the address space is in use in multiple countries. However, I would guess that is rather the exception than the rule. Would it not have been nice if a network address holder could indicate to geo location providers a "full override" to "idiot automation" that "yes, the entirety of use of this address space is being used by users who come from within the borders of this country"? This would then work irrespective of e.g. users bringing their cell phones with them with (GPS and other) location services turned on to vacations in faraway places and VPNing in to your network, and immediately causing all your VPN users for that VPN concentrator to be geo-located to that country? (Yes, we have had that happen, and getting it fixed is apparently going to take months!) That would make it so that the geo-feed URLs would only be necessary to maintain and serve a useful purpose for those address space holders which use their address space in more than one country. It's permitted to dream, right? Yes, I know, getting universal agreement on this or something like it from all the sundry geo-location providers is basically *never* going to happen, and instead the geo-location providers farm out the effort of collecting and maintaining geo-location data to all the address space holders instead. Sigh! And for IPv6 you basically have to list shorter prefixes than what the "idiot automation" insists on using internally but in all probability does not document externally, so you have to rely on unsubstantiated rumours from other ISPs. Double sigh! And each attempt apparently has a "duty cycle" of a month or more. Triple sigh! Geo location providers are just the worst to work with! Particularly if you have not had to bother with them earlier. Best regards, - Håvard