Poul-Henning's statistics (was: lowering maximum assignment

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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