On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Engin Gunduz wrote:
---quote The RIPE Network Management Database contains information about IP address space allocations and assignments. This information also indicates the country where resources were first allocated or assigned. However it is not intended that the data be considered as an authoritative statement of the location where any specific resource may currently be in use.
Therefore using this information for IP to country mapping may result in inaccuracies and, as a result, in user's confusion in many cases.
For instance, as the Internet is global, it is easy for users to either intentionally or unintentionally use IP addresses that have been assigned to a company conducting business in another region.For example, a user in Italy may be receiving ISP service from a company who gets a link to Japan via a satellite company run out of the US.Which company has the space registered depends on their business and networking arrangements. ---end quote
Indeed, because of this reason, it might be good idea to obsolete "country:" attribute in the inetnums. What do you think about this?
Please don't. 99.9% accurate info is better than 0% info. -Hank