When should I use `status` and when should I use `state` when adding to the schema?

The convention we try to stick to when authoring OCSF classes and objects is to use status_id and its sibling status for the result of an activity, usually as a class attribute, and use state_id and its sibling state for the state of an object. The latter might sound obvious but it may not be obvious to not use status for objects. The reasoning is that an object exist independent of time or an activity or action, and therefore it has a state. It could have just as easily had a status, over an indeterminate period of time, but we have tried to distinguish between the two situations by reserving status for the point in time result of an activity or action.