Agreed. "LIR-ALLOCATED" would be good especially with IPV6 on the way.
Personally I think that LIRs *should* be allowed to give objects a status of "ALLOCATED" in some circumstances.
Imagine, if you can, your typical supernational registry which gets multiple address blocks allocated by the NCC for redistribution amongst the LIR's 20 or or more associated organisations. Here a lower level "ALLOCATED" inetnum could be used to keep track of this redistribution (if only the NCC's auditing tools didn't automatically assume that these - carefully labelled - allocations were duplicate assignments.
Another possible use for LIR "ALLOCATED" inetnum objects would be to keep track of where a range of addresses was being used for assignments to VSE customers connected at a particular point of presence.
... just my thoughts from several years of running a large supernational registry and currently being in the middle of a lengthy registry audit by the RIPE NCC... ;-)
James
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