"ALLOCATED-BY-IANA", "ALLOCATED-BY-RIR", "ALLOCATED-BY-RIR NON-PORTABLE", "ALLOCATED-BY-RIR PORTABLE" and "ALLOCATED-BY-RIR UNSPECIFIED" values. It is optional in all other objects, and it is single valued in all objects.
As we're talking about the use of the organisation object, can we use it to show delegation path (instead of overloading the status attribute above) in a resource object (i.e. aut-num, inetnum and inet6num). For example, if querying an inetnum, you get this response:
as a user of the DB, though I see the theoretical beauty of your proposal, I would rather have a concise definition in the inetnum object status attribute than a heap of output that will take some time to make sense of, not to mention having to scroll back and forth just to see the answer to a simple question. So I prefer the proposal as it is in this respect.
Joao
Thanks Joao. After thinking about it, I agree that it is more important to have a concise whois response. It's just the *-BY-IANA/RIR/LIR in the status attribute that bugs me as we have the org-type attribute in the organisation object that 'begs' to be used :-) But that's a minor point really. I'm happy to support the proposal. Cheers, Sanjaya