That's an operational problem. No one should ever accept nor should ARIN
ever write an LOA for anything except their own registered prefix.

Best,

Martin



On Thursday, March 27, 2014, Scott Leibrand <scottleibr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The author or shepherds can provide more detail, but this was submitted in
> response to a recent presentation on research that involved announcing a
> covering aggregate for a significant fraction of the entire IP space with
> ARIN providing an LOA that allowed it. Per statements at the mic, the
> author doesn't want ARIN to allow that to happen again.
>
> Scott
>
> > On Mar 26, 2014, at 7:55 PM, David Huberman <
> david.huber...@microsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi PPML,
> >
> > Can someone show me where in the mailing list archives this policy was
> actively discussed on PPML? I can't find it.
> >
> > Alternatively, can the policy author or someone who strongly supports
> this policy please either post to the list or email me privately and clue
> me in?  I issued and managed almost every experimental assignment for
> almost 10 years from 2003 to 2013, and I am lost as to what this policy is
> saying.  I would like to be educated so I can support, or not support, the
> efforts that have been made here.
> >
> > Thank you!
> > /david
> >
> > David R Huberman
> > Microsoft Corporation
> > Senior IT/OPS Program Manager (GFS)
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: arin-ppml-boun...@arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-boun...@arin.net] On
> Behalf Of ARIN
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 11:28 AM
> > To: arin-ppml@arin.net
> > Subject: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2014-12: Anti-hijack Policy
> >
> > On 20 March 2014 the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) accepted
> > "ARIN-prop-202 Anti-hijack Policy" as a Draft Policy.
> >
> > Draft Policy ARIN-2014-12 is below and can be found at:
> > https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2014_12.html
> >
> > You are encouraged to discuss the merits and your concerns of Draft
> Policy 2014-12 on the Public Policy Mailing List.
> >
> > The AC will evaluate the discussion in order to assess the conformance
> of this draft policy with ARIN's Principles of Internet Number Resource
> Policy as stated in the PDP. Specifically, these principles are:
> >
> >   * Enabling Fair and Impartial Number Resource Administration
> >   * Technically Sound
> >   * Supported by the Community
> >
> > The ARIN Policy Development Process (PDP) can be found at:
> > https://www.arin.net/policy/pdp.html
> >
> > Draft Policies and Proposals under discussion can be found at:
> > https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/index.html
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Communications and Member Services
> > American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
> >
> >
> > ## * ##
> >
> >
> > Draft Policy ARIN-2014-12
> > Anti-hijack Policy
> >
> > Date: 25 March 2014
> >
> > Problem Statement:
> >
> > ARIN should not give research organizations permission to hijack
> prefixes that have already been allocated. Research organizations
> announcing lit aggregates may receive sensitive production traffic
> belonging to live networks during periods of instability.
> >
> > Section 11.7 describes more than allocation size therefore updating the
> section heading to something more accurate is appropriate.
> >
> > Policy statement:
> >
> > Modify the section 11.7 heading to be more accurate. Modify the first
> sentence to prohibit overlapping assignments. Add text at the end to define
> how research allocations should be designated and prohibit LOA's without
> allocations.
> >
> > 11.7 Resource Allocation Guidelines
> >
> > The Numbering Resources requested come from the global Internet Resource
> space, do not overlap previously assigned space, and are not from private
> or other non-routable Internet Resource space. The allocation size should
> be consistent with the existing ARIN minimum allocation sizes, unless small
> allocations are intended to be explicitly part of the experiment. If an
> organization requires more resource than stipulated by the minimum
> allocation sizes in force at the time of their request, their experimental
> documentation should have clearly described and justified why this is
> required.
> >
> > All research allocations must be registered publicly in whois. Each
> research allocation will be designated as a research allocation with a
> comment indicating when the allocation will end. ARIN will not issue a
> Letter of Authority (LOA) to route a research prefix unless the allocation
> is properly registered in whois.
> >
> > Comments:
> > a. Timetable for implementation: Immediate b. Anything else:
> > _______________________________
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