Enforcing ISO-3166-1

[David R Huberman]

(Apologies, I haven't seen the rest of my inbox yet)

> The database would accept and process only the country in either the
> two or three character code, or the full name. 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.

The alternate proposal is, of course, the way to go about it in my
opinion. Country codes should be mandatory in the ARIN WHOIS database.  
ISO-3166 compliancy, while nice, is only practical for newcomers to ARIN
if there is at least 'basic' flexibility.

Go for it

/david

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