Hi Anurag, The country value in the APNIC stats file and inetnum records maintained by APNIC contains the two letter ISO 3166 code of the country/economy where that Member organization is legally registered. In the event the Member is using their prefix in a country that is different from where they are legally registered, we allow them to update the country value in the inetnum records for IP geolocation purpose.
> cat delegated-apnic-latest | grep 45.112.180.0 > apnic|IN|ipv4|45.112.180.0|1024|20150304|allocated This particular account has two challenges - firstly it was created in 2002 and secondly it was from a Member that was out of region, and we did not fully understand the implications of allowing the account holder to select which economy they intended to operate in (instead of the economy where the entity is registered) at that time. Our procedures have evolved substantially since then, which means these delegations show up as an error. Bringing this to our attention has been very useful and prompted us to scrutinize other accounts with similar attributes. We will proceed to correct this record, along with the other records we have found. In the instance you raised, as PCH are legally registered in the United States, the country record should be US, which we will resolve shortly. Regards, Vivek From: Anurag Bhatia <m...@anuragbhatia.com> Date: Saturday, 1 July 2023 at 9:43 pm To: mailman_APNIC-talk <apnic-t...@apnic.net> Subject: [apnic-talk] Different country in delegation file Vs whois record for PCH 45.112.180.0/22 Hello everyone I was looking at the APNIC delegation file and noticed 45.112.180.0/22 <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2F45.112.180.0%2F22&data=05%7C01%7C%7C12783f63ab5543c0c5d508db7a287327%7C127d8d0d7ccf473dab096e44ad752ded%7C0%7C0%7C638238086383250145%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2F7rrqj7Ew6ZTSqFfP%2FweuJxk8gQg1GLDltOkAVCC0q8%3D&reserved=0> belonging to PCH in Asia Pacific in the allocation. I wonder why delegation file says it's allocated to IN (India) while whois record shows Nepal? cat delegated-apnic-latest | grep 45.112.180.0 apnic|IN|ipv4|45.112.180.0|1024|20150304|allocated % [whois.apnic.net <http://whois.apnic.net>] % Whois data copyright terms http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html <http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html> % Information related to '45.112.180.0 - 45.112.183.255' % Abuse contact for '45.112.180.0 - 45.112.183.255' is 'ab...@pch.net <mailto:ab...@pch.net>' inetnum: 45.112.180.0 - 45.112.183.255 netname: PCH-AP descr: PCH provides anycast secondaries for lots of ccTLDs, descr: including many in AP region. country: NP org: ORG-PCH1-AP admin-c: KS883-AP tech-c: KS883-AP abuse-c: AP934-AP Wondering if it's just some sort of error in the allocation data or something specific to delegation Vs whois difference which I am missing out here. Any inputs will be appreciated! Thanks. -- Anurag Bhatia anuragbhatia.com <_blank>
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