Re: [apnic-talk]Something strange found in apnic database

[Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>]

On Wednesday, Feb 5, 2003, at 08:16 Canada/Eastern, Igor Milyakov wrote:

> In process of parsing subnet records in apnic.db.inetnum I found at 
> least two
> subnets, that have a UA country code:
>
> [...]
>
> According to descr field this code used to represent United Arab 
> Emirates.
> As far as I know the UA country code is assigned to Ukraine and no one 
> country
> can use this code too. So, United Arab Emirates must have other code (I
> didn't found which one).
>
> How can it be?
The ISO3166 code for the United Arab Emirates is AE. Looks like someone 
got confused when they filled out the inetnum template.


Joe