Comment 6 for bug 1077292

The allocation pool, to my understanding, was created for automatic allocation, ie: for those cases where the IP is no explicitly specified. I think there's nothing wrong with out-of-pool explicit allocation.

We might think about allowing the policy engine to restrict this capability to some specific users, but that is probably another story.

The API doc is definitely not clear on this regard. My idea at this stage is to convert this bug into a doc bug.