[db-wg] Decision on NWI-4 INETNUM status values

Colleagues

For many years people have been asking for a way to assign a whole
allocation without having to create 2 smaller assignments. The
situation is more relevant now with so many /24 allocations. After the
RIPE NCC rejected the idea of a dual primary key, for technical
reasons, there were two options on the table. Making the "status:"
attribute multiple or creating a new status value 'ALLOCATED-ASSIGNED
PA'. No one has objected to either of these options. The co-chairs
therefore recommend the option put forward by the RIPE NCC to add a
new status value 'ALLOCATED-ASSIGNED PA'. Of the two options, this is
probably the simplest and likely to cause less problems with user's
scripts that parse objects.

If there are no objections to this, the co-chairs now ask the RIPE NCC
to produce an impact/implementation report to add this new status
value and include the business rules to restrict it's use. We will
then seek a final approval from the community on the report.

cheers
denis
co-chair DB-WG