Hi Arash
If many organisations are using these values then, unfortunately, you are
basing decisions on meaningless values.
The country attribute in resource objects is undefined. Users can set this to
any country they wish with no meaning to anyone reading the value from the
database.
>From the description of the extended delegated stats
>fileftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/stats/RIR-Statistics-Exchange-Format.txt
it says this about the country code:Format:
registry|cc|type|start|value|date|status[|extensions...]
registry = One value from the set of defined strings:
{apnic,arin,iana,lacnic,ripencc};
cc = ISO 3166 2-letter country code, and the enumerated
variances of
{AP,EU,UK}
These values are not defined in ISO 3166 but are widely used.
The cc value identifies the country. However, it is not
specified
if this is the country where the addresses are used.
There are no rules defined for this value.
It therefore cannot be used in any reliable way to map IP
addresses
to countriesIf you were to sync the stats file with resource
object data you are in effect setting an undefined field in the stats to an
undefined value from the database.
The purpose of NWI-10 is to create a well defined country value in both the
stats file and the ORGANISATION object. The legal location of an organisation
is currently the only well defined country information available. There is no
information available anywhere in the database or stats file telling you where
a network is being used.
cheersdenis
co-chair DB-WG
On Friday, 1 November 2019, 05:37:28 CET, Arash Naderpour via db-wg
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
I'm new to DB-WG, but want to express my opinion in this regard, from problem
definition:"Historically the country code was used to refer to the location of
the network"
There are plenty of organization out there that are already set their network
and firewalls rules to use country code value in delegation file as reference
to the location of the network.
Changing the rule to to something new, will cause problem for clients and
providers, so I don't think it is a good idea, country code in delegation file
can be synced with the country code for resource object in RIPE DB.A new
attribute in organization object refers to where the resource holder is legally
based is totally fine, but having the same value in delegation file can break
networks and services.
Regards,
Arash NaderpourParsun Network Solutions
