There was an implication in your mail that no WHOIS records should have ZZ.
There are specific reasons *some* WHOIS records have ZZ. I understand you want *delegated* WHOIS records to have valid economies. FYI the readme of delegated-extened and the non-exteded delegated statistics files for the RIR (and the # comments) are very clear that the *intent* of the economy field in these compressed reports, is not Geolocation of the IP ranges, but is about the entity registration. The Organization object may be doing a better job of accounting for that, but changing Both format, and semantic intent of things like the delegated statistics report is a complex, tedious process. -George On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 8:38 AM Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg <[email protected]> wrote: > > In message > <CAKr6gn1QRwJrnjD+tqFth8SJ5x=EyTi=np36v_ctaxpasjf...@mail.gmail.com>, > George Michaelson <[email protected]> wrote: > > >As a point of information, APNIC uses cc "ZZ" specifically for > >unallocated and "stub" (outward transferred) records. > > > >ZZ is an ISO3166 assigned code for "unknown" > > Thank you for pointing this out. > > It is an interesting point of curiosity, but as I am sure you realize, > this particular small factoid neither rebutts nor dininishes my basic > thesis, which is (a) that all resource and organization records should > have a country: and (b) that the values in these country: fields should > obey either some generally accepted and recognized standard (e.g. ISO > 3166) or at the very least some well defined and well documented convention. > > > Regards, > rfg >
