[ppml] Nasty business with 2003-3

[Leo Bicknell]

In a message written on Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 08:57:55AM -0700, Alec H. Peterson wrote:
> 2) The definition of 'street address' (IMO) is sufficiently ambiguous to 
> allow an ISP to not provide any localizing information.

There is evidence that it was not intended to be ambiguous:

http://www.arin.net/mailing_lists/ppml/1800.html

However, it's all a bit of a moot point now.  There are two things that
need to be take-aways from this exercise:

* If you specifiy what should, or should not be in databases like whois
  use the field names that already exist in the database, exactly.  That
  is:

  OrgName:
  OrgID:
  Address:
  City:
  StateProv:
  PostalCode:
  Country:
  Comment:
  RegDate:
  Updated:

  "Street Address" is not a field.  Please say "Address:" field, or
  "Address:" + "City:" + "StateProv:" + "PostalCode:" + "Country:"
  fields.

* If you don't like it, take the existing 2003-3, change it to specify
  fields, and reintroduce it.  Slightly annoying, but it's how our
  process works.

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