Proposal for extended syntax for the 'country:' attribute

>    maybe there is another solution:  migrate the "country" attribute to a
>    "registry" attribute which should hold the responsible registry name

<ripe-104++ speak>
  I think *allocations* should be tagged with the unique NCC RegID,
  *assignments* should be tagged by [multiple] country codes.
</ripe-104++ speak>
  
  I'm reluctant to let go of the well-established use of the country:
  attribute. 

  I'm looking forward to the time when we might have more flexible
  selection criteria for the DB, and I think loosing country information
  isn't a good idea.
  
  Wilfried.
  
PS: I'm thinking up some pro.s and con.s later :-)
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