Proposal for extended syntax for the 'country:' attribute

>Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 17:34:17 MET
>From: "Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet" <Wilfried.Woeber at cc.univie.ac.at>
>  
>  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.

    My idea was just because I think that it is already more important to
    which registry/provider a network belongs than to which country, unless
    you want to introduce Internet customs based on country borders ;-)
    
    Anyhow, of course it should be kept if there is any use for it !  But I
    don't think that introducing an additional provider *attribute* within
    the inetnum object will need the design-work for a provider *object* to
    be finished.  The only thing that should be finished is the decision
    about the provider IDs which will be used as a DB key.
      
    Ok, let's finish this sidestep and find a solution for the country
    attribute.
    
    Regards
    Christian