Enforcing ISO-3166-1

[Bruce James]

>>Cathy - enforcing the standard in the database is obviously a good idea. A
friendly user interface that corrects for obvious and common errors is an
equally good idea. Is there any reason that the two should be mutually
exclusive?<<

I agree. Do it......

/Bruce James
bmjames at swbell.net



----- Original Message -----
From: "John K. Doyle, Jr." <jkd at cyberspace.org>
To: "Cathy Murphy" <cathym at arin.net>
Cc: <dbwg at arin.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: Enforcing ISO-3166-1


On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Cathy Murphy wrote:

>  This change would mean enforcing ISO 3166 by accepting USA, GB or Brazil,
>  but not accepting U.S.A., UK, or Brasil. An alternate proposal suggests
>  that ARIN anticipate common mistakes such as embedded punctuation,
>  misspellings and incorrect codes.

Cathy - enforcing the standard in the database is obviously a good idea. A
friendly user interface that corrects for obvious and common errors is an
equally good idea. Is there any reason that the two should be mutually
exclusive?

John




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