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.