New Proposal

>   From owner-lir-wg at ripe.net Thu Mar 29 16:39:45 2001
>   To: Janos Zsako <zsako at banknet.net>

Stephen,

>   > I am just wondering whether "no status" really means "pre RIPE".
>   > I suspect it is not the case, as Daniel's document was discussed
>   > on the mailing list in May 1995 (and is dated 30 June 0995), while
>   > RIPE NCC did perform allocations much earlier as far as I remember.
>   
>   But in a classful enviroment.

Correct.

>   > So my point is that the term "pre RIPE" may be misleading.
>   > 
>   > What about "status: UK"? (UK for UnKnown :)) )
>   
>   UK = United Kingdom

Sure, this is why I put the smiley there.

>   What about CA = Classful Allocation

Yes, this may be the right term, although it is not strictly related
to this (if inetnum has status attribute it does not mean it is a classless
allocation or assignment as classful allocations and assignments continued
for another year or so after ripe-127 was published).
"No status" means pre-ripe-136, dated May 1996 (as this is the document
that made the status attribute mandatory) and classless assignments
did start only after ripe-136 indeed, as far as I remember.

Janos