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Re: Whois software run by Lacnic and BR?

  • From: Mark Prior
  • Date: Tue Oct 21 09:52:55 2003 
Hank Nussbacher wrote:


The whois server at the .BR registry (also the NIR for Brazil) doesn't
provide country information because it's implicit as it only provide
information for Brazil.

Implicit is fine for humans but for automated scripts, couldn't it be made to have country=BR for all your inetnum entries?
When I was running a whois server we discovered that not all local people appeared to want to use a local address. Some of them had head offices used for billing, and the like, that was in a different country so having the country code was useful even for humans.

Mark.