The RIPE Network Management Database contains information about IP address
space allocations and assignments. This information also indicates the country
where resources were first allocated or assigned. However it is not intended
that the data be considered as an authoritative statement of the location
where any specific resource may currently be in use.

Therefore using this information for IP to country mapping may result in
inaccuracies and, as a result, in user's confusion in many cases.

For instance, as the Internet is global, it is easy for users to either
intentionally or unintentionally use IP addresses that have been assigned to
a company conducting business in another region.  For example, a user in Italy
may be receiving ISP service from a company who gets a link to Japan via
a satellite company run out of the US.  Which company has the space registered
depends on their business and networking arrangements.

Information about IP address space allocations and assignments is available in
two forms:

1. Monthly reports of data relating to allocations and assignments within the
RIPE region.

   These reports are available at ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc/

   The format of the RIPE data and the conditions for its use are set out in
   the readme file at:

    ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/stats/_README-ripe-stats.txt

   Links to statistics produced by the other RIRs (APNIC and ARIN) are
   available at:

    http://www.aso.icann.org/stats/index.html

2. Text file containing all inetnum objects in the RIPE Database. The file is
available at:

    ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/split/ripe.db.inetnum.gz

   For more information about the format of the database objects please refer
   to the Database Reference manual at:

    http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/databaseref-manual.html.