[db-wg] NWI-10 Definition of Country

There was an implication in your mail that no WHOIS records should have ZZ.

There are specific reasons *some* WHOIS records have ZZ.

I understand you want *delegated* WHOIS records to have valid economies.

FYI the readme of delegated-extened and the non-exteded delegated
statistics files for the RIR (and the # comments) are very clear that
the *intent* of the economy field in these compressed reports, is not
Geolocation of the IP ranges, but is about the entity registration.
The Organization object may be doing a better job of accounting for
that, but changing Both format, and semantic intent of things like the
delegated statistics report is a complex, tedious process.

-George

On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 8:38 AM Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg
<db-wg at ripe.net> wrote:
>
> In message <CAKr6gn1QRwJrnjD+tqFth8SJ5x=EyTi=Np36V_ctaxpASjFnnw at mail.gmail.com>,
>  George Michaelson <ggm at algebras.org> wrote:
>
> >As a point of information, APNIC uses cc "ZZ" specifically for
> >unallocated and "stub" (outward transferred) records.
> >
> >ZZ is an ISO3166 assigned code for "unknown"
>
> Thank you for pointing this out.
>
> It is an interesting point of curiosity, but as I am sure you realize,
> this particular small factoid neither rebutts nor dininishes my basic
> thesis, which is (a) that all resource and organization records should
> have a country: and (b) that the values in these country: fields should
> obey either some generally accepted and recognized standard (e.g. ISO
> 3166) or at the very least some well defined and well documented convention.
>
>
> Regards,
> rfg
>