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massimocandela / geofeed-finder

Utility to find geofeed files linked from rpsl.
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Changed Afghanistan Official Name #6

Closed keatonaglair closed 3 years ago

keatonaglair commented 3 years ago

Due to the change in government the entity which has the most power over the country officially titles itself as the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan".

This is not meant to be a show of support of any side in the ongoing conflict(s) in the country or region. However this is the entity that makes up what can best be described as the current Afghan government.

keatonaglair commented 3 years ago

Yeah, possibly. Although the former "Islamic Republic of Afghanistan" has little power at this point I would personally say that style is inaccurate to use in reference to the country itself due to their lack of control. I'm not going to dig my feet in the sand about this. But just putting this here so that there's some discussion on this as nearly everyone knows... to put it mildly... the situation has changed in Afghanistan.

keatonaglair commented 3 years ago

but maybe this link isn't sufficiently official

Problem is, with the current situation... What is official? I would say since the Emirate has control. They are official.

massimocandela commented 3 years ago

Hi @keatonaglair, Thanks for your feedback. RFC8805 and RFC9092 do not use the official_name field anywhere, but only the ISO3166 2-letter country code. The JSON file contains such a field because stripping them out would imply an extra (useless? **) step. I'm sticking with the ISO3166 standard on which the RFC is based. There is no point in changing this bit: our goal is to make geofeed data automatically discoverable and parsable, for which having a standard is essential, and not to create+maintain another dataset (with fields we would not use anyway). I think such a request is more appropriate for the ISO 3166 maintenance agency. I'm going to close this PR, feel free to open it again in case the ISO standard changes but the change is not reflected in this repo.

** but maybe I will strip them, to make it lighter/cleaner.