[64365] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Whois software run by Lacnic and BR?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Prior)
Tue Oct 21 09:50:32 2003
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 23:16:10 +0930
From: Mark Prior <mrp@mrp.net>
To: Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>
Cc: Frederico A C Neves <fneves@registro.br>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20031020175305.00b254c0@max.att.net.il>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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.
