[ipv6-wg at ripe.net] RE: [6bone] /20 allocated - update your BGP filters!

Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 09:15:43AM +1200, Jason Everard wrote:
> 
>>Having lived in Europe for most of my life, EU is not a country, rather
>>a collection of countries. I'm not sure if it is just standard practice
>>to list the European country under "EU", but wouldn't it be better to
>>have "ES" for Espania?
> 
> 
> In this context, "EU" means "multinational network in the RIPE region".
> 
> It's not necessarily confined to actual EU countries, nor does it mean
> "all of the EU" - just "more than one country so you can't easily tack
> a single country code on it".
> 
> This definition isn't perfect, but does the job...

FYI: Because of the ambiguities in the meaning of the "country:" attribute 
when applied to a network, the Database Working Group recommended at the 
recent RIPE meeting to either get rid of "country:" completely, or at 
least to make it optional.

-- 
Shane Kerr
RIPE NCC