[db-wg] Recognisition of Kosovo and adding of LIR signup options with Kosovo as well as XK in inet(6)num

There is also a taxation issue here, i cannot put an invoice that lists
Serbia or Albania as country for my company in my accounting or i probably
go to jail, if not fined at the very least.
My main problem is i cannot even sign up a LIR from Kosovo easily - I get
told by RIPE to select either Serbia or Albania and provide documents from
either country, direct quote from support:

> You will be asked to select the country the company is registered in
> depending on the company registration papers provided.
This documents are obviously issued by the ministry of finance of *Kosovo*,
so what the hell should i provide? Do i go s*** d*** at the Albans to issue
me an Albanian incorporation cert with "Pristina, Albania"?


Hell, even my Raiffeisen bank account IBAN in Kosovo also starts with
XK*....

Even the *Ministry of Economy had to select their LIR as Albania*:

organisation:   ORG-MOEO2-RIPE
org-name:       Ministry of Economy of Republic of Kosovo
country:        AL
org-type:       *LIR*
address:        St. Mother Theresa, no. 36,
address:        10000
address:        Pristina, Kosovo*address:        ALBANIA
*



My ASN (205432) is also Geolocated to Albania in the RIPE feed and now
Serbian ISPs refuse to peer with me, if i selected Serbia then the
Kosovarian and Albanian ISPs would refuse.
Then we have issues with online services like Youtube that don't use
Geofeed - If i set AL in my inetnums i get Albanian censorship, if i set RS
i get Serbian propaganda that is illegal in Kosovo...
My customers can also not sign up for pretty much any hosting/amazon or
similar, they either cant select Kosovo, get declined by country mismatch
of their cards (WHICH DO USE XK! My Visa clearly identifies as issued in
Kosovo) or try to explain it and nobody wants to listen,


This all is also nothing new - Kosovo is a country since 1999, 23
years..... it is pretty much more stable and democratic than Bosnia which
de-facto is 3 countries....

--
William

On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 11:54 AM Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org> wrote:

> George Michaelson via db-wg wrote on 13/05/2022 01:59:
> > Really? Geo is better solved. by Geofeed. There's an RFC for how to tell
> > people where a network documents its intended use of resources, we do
> > better to follow it in my opinion
>
> country: isn't intended for geolocation.  It's the country where the
> organisation / person is legally based (i.e. where you send the
> proverbial warrant to).
>
> The idea of using XK and potentially other X* identifiers looks very
> reasonable.  Maybe the chairs could create an NWI to track it?
>
> Nick
>
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