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

Hi William,

A small clarification: currently only "officially assigned" ISO3166 country codes, and "EU" (exceptionally reserved) are valid as "country:" values in the RIPE database.

"AP" is not currently allowed as a country code in the RIPE database.

Regards
Ed Shryane
RIPE NCC


> On 13 May 2022, at 02:10, William Weber via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> As the Netherlands recognise the Republic of Kosovo as sovereign nation (see 1), and the EU does as well (see 2) there should be a way to include the proposed 2 letter country code (XK, see 3) as option for inet(6)num objects. The EU and other multinational organisation (IMF, SWIFT etc., see 4) use this code already since independence in 2008, and it is the currently reserved ccTLD for Kosovo as well. Kosovo also has a unique phone number prefix assigned (+383) by the ITU (see 5).
> 
> It makes no sense that EU and AP is available (which are not countries, AP is not even in ISO-3166-2), but XK is not.
>