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

Hi,

On 2004-05-11 09:40:10 +0200, 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...

I'm not too sure about it. 'EU' is ambiguous here: does the data owner
mean European Union? Or Europe as a continent? Or the RIPE service region?
Or just 'many countries'?
Unfortunately, we allow the code 'EU' without defining what it actually means in the
RIPE Whois Database...  In different inetnums/inet6nums it is used to mean
different things.
 
At the end of last year we had a discussion about this issue in the
DB WG mailing list, which I tried to summarize in the last week's RIPE
meeting in the DB WG session
(http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-48/presentations/ripe48-db-country.pdf)

We will post the outcome of the discussion that took place in the session
later to db-wg and address-policy mailing lists.  As far as I can remember, 
although there wasn't a real consensus, the working group advised to either
remove "country:" attribute from inet(6)nums or make it optional.

regards,
-engin
 
> Gert Doering
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