[db-wg] Question regarding delta between "delegated-ripencc-extended-latest" and Whois output

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 1:22 PM Nick Hilliard via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net> wrote:
> Peter Müller wrote on 29/06/2020 20:54:
> > What would you do if you need to build a database to determine the
> > country assigned to an IP address - let's take the one assigned to it by
> > it's owner, regardless of jurisdiction or physical location -?
>
> There's no short or easy answer to this - if there were, there would be
> lots of geo-ip databases available on the internet.

Also, GeoIP data is collected to do different things. Some people care
about jurisdiction, other care about territorial rights for media
distribution, other care about language, and others care about
latency. No single database is going to be good at doing all those
things.