Hi, On 2004-05-11 09:40:10 +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 09:15:43AM +1200, Jason Everard wrote:
Having lived in Europe for most of my life, EU is not a country, rather a collection of countries. I'm not sure if it is just standard practice to list the European country under "EU", but wouldn't it be better to have "ES" for Espania?
In this context, "EU" means "multinational network in the RIPE region".
It's not necessarily confined to actual EU countries, nor does it mean "all of the EU" - just "more than one country so you can't easily tack a single country code on it".
This definition isn't perfect, but does the job...
I'm not too sure about it. 'EU' is ambiguous here: does the data owner mean European Union? Or Europe as a continent? Or the RIPE service region? Or just 'many countries'? Unfortunately, we allow the code 'EU' without defining what it actually means in the RIPE Whois Database... In different inetnums/inet6nums it is used to mean different things. At the end of last year we had a discussion about this issue in the DB WG mailing list, which I tried to summarize in the last week's RIPE meeting in the DB WG session (http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-48/presentations/ripe48-db-country.pd...) We will post the outcome of the discussion that took place in the session later to db-wg and address-policy mailing lists. As far as I can remember, although there wasn't a real consensus, the working group advised to either remove "country:" attribute from inet(6)nums or make it optional. regards, -engin
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