Anne Lord <anne@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