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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Whois software run by Lacnic and BR?
Mark Prior <[email protected]> wrote: [...] So how should whois users understand country information in the database?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.Implicit is fine for humans but for automated scripts, couldn't it be made to have country=BR for all your inetnum entries?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. Should they interpret it as "my network is located in this country"? Alternatively, should they interpret it as "our corporate offices are in this country"? Increasingly, there is a discontinuity between the two as international corporations run networks in many countries from an HQ in just one. If people updating the information in whois have different ideas about its meaning then users of whois its value might be lower than expected. Regards, -- leo vegoda RIPE NCC Registration Services Manager
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