[tor-bugs] #6266 [Tor]: maxmind geoip db is starting to label Tor relays as country "A1"

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#6266: maxmind geoip db is starting to label Tor relays as country "A1"
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 Reporter:  arma        |          Owner:                    
     Type:  defect      |         Status:  needs_review      
 Priority:  normal      |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.3.x-final
Component:  Tor         |        Version:                    
 Keywords:  tor-client  |         Parent:                    
   Points:              |   Actualpoints:                    
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Comment(by nickm):

 I think this is a plausible approach.  It's annoyingly labor-intensive,
 though.  Here are some suggestions:
   * As much as possible of the above (excluding downloading the files and
 blockfinder) should be done with scripts; there should not be a 12-step
 process that people need to do by hand whenever maxmind updates.
   * It would be best to have some way to record the outcome of the manual
 resolution decisions, and re-apply them, so that A) it's easy to document
 which manual changes we made, and B) we don't need to resolve the same
 conflict more than once.  Could there be a file that contains the manual
 changes that we re-apply to resolve conflicts?

 > I'd need to know how we'd want to document a) the general approach
 (basically what I described in this comment) and b) the manual changes.

 The instructions for making the file should really in in a README.geoip
 file distributed with the code.  For documenting the manual changes, see
 above.

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