Hi, On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 10:42:42AM +0100, Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
DELEGATED-TO-NSP and ASSIGNED-TO-USER are two terms that would be clear worldwide.
A LIR is something different from "just a network service provider". Actually, a LIR is pretty well-defined (as is RIR), and maybe some effort should be invested to use *that* terminology world-wide, instead of inventing new terms for everything to completely confuse matters. Ditto for ALLOCATED and ASSIGNED - renaming those doesn't really solve anything (and overlooks the multi-hierarchy problem Robert has already mentioned). We would need at least "DELEGATED-TO-LIR", "SUB-DELEGATED", and "ASSIGNED-TO-USER", but again I see no significant improvement as compared to (well-documented) "ALLOCATED", "SUB-ALLOCATED" and "ASSIGNED" values. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 46204 (45201) SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-299