**Description **

• Learning from the limitations in PoRep around sector status (see FIPs Discussion #1108), which restricts new market and additive services, we want to address this early in FWSS.
• A key user story: As a client or developer, I want to easily determine the current status of a dataset and its transitional records.
• Proposal: Create an enum datasetStatus to represent the lifecycle state, such as:
  • Active
  • Inactive
• Methods/events for exposing dataset status:
  • Obtain status from another smart contract (onchain)
  • Access via oracle, ethget, or subgraph (offchain)
• Documentation deliverables:
  • Clear documentation of dataset lifecycle, including a flow diagram or similar visual aid.
  • Explain how status can be retrieved via these mechanisms and what each status means.