On Thu, 26 Jan 2023 at 03:55, denis walker via db-wg <db-wg@ripe.net> wrote:
Hi Ed
Thanks for the explanation. But as I explained to Cynthia, "org-name:" and "country:" are very different attributes. The org-name is just a free text label by which an organisation is known. Whatever label is specified, people know what its purpose is, even if the value is not verified by the NCC. With country, the country codes have a well defined meaning, but when entered by users no one knows what it's purpose is.
I think you have this the wrong way around. ISO 3166 has a well defined purpose: "The purpose of ISO 3166 is to define internationally recognized codes of letters and/or numbers that we can use when we refer to countries and their subdivisions." https://www.iso.org/iso-3166-country-codes.html What we are missing is a meaning for the application of these codes in the context of the RIPE database. But even if we started to define a meaning at this late stage, who would choose to use it?