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And get this: There is no universal agreement on what countries there are. There are always a few that some nations acknowledge and some don't. You could just
by TomMckenny 8y ago
And get this: There is no universal agreement on what countries there are. There are always a few that some nations acknowledge and some don't.
You could just copy whatever is done for TLD but I get the impression it does not unambiguously covers every point on earth in advance.
- bastawhiz 8y agoNorth Korea is not recognized as a state by a few countries, but if I told you that there was a server there in Pyongyang, I doubt the location would be ambiguous. The point of this system is to provide a rough location, not an exact one. If you cared about an exact location, you'd just include latitude and longitude. But that's not useful for compute availability purposes, since you likely care far more about the laws of the state that it's housed in and the connections it has to nearby metropolitan areas. A pile of numbers does nothing to help you remember where your VM is.
- hardwaresofton 8y agoYeah, it's even worse than I make it out to be -- one of the biggest problems of a scheme like this is avoiding politics.