[apnic-talk] Status field for inet6num objects

Anne Lord <anne at apnic.net> writes:

> In addition, I seem to remember (as in ripe-127?) the main reason for 
> introducing the "status" field, was to assist in the identification of 
> address space as PA or PI.

There is no PI in IPv6.

This can't be said often enough.

> With the values suggested:
> 
>  RIR-allocated
>  LIR-allocated
>  Assigned
> 
> this does not seem possible anymore.

Right. It is not necessary.

> To clarify, the values that APNIC would prefer to use are:
> 
> ALLOCATED PORTABLE 
> ALLOCATED NON-PORTABLE  
> ASSIGNED PORTABLE 
> ASSIGNED NON-PORTABLE 

This does not take into account that there are no portable addresses,
and that there is an additional level "LIR-allocated" which IPv4 does
not have.

I like the original proposal of not having the status generated
automatically, and giving them a meaning clearly reflected in the
name.

Robert