Andrew,

There are 2 kinds of reassignments that I use simple and detailed. All the 
issues that are described in this draft only exist in the detailed 
re-assignment. An ORG could use the simple option and not have POC validation 
issues. Is there a reason that simple re-assignments were left out of the 
problem statement?

1) Yes and Yes. Even bad data has value.
2) Everyone has some responsibility, it shouldn't be lumped on any one group. 
3) Leading question that can only be answered by Staff. 
4) No. I would be in favor of marking the record as stale or switching the 
record to Simple and removing the POC.
5) Yes.

Thanks,

Kevin Blumberg

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From: ARIN-PPML [mailto:arin-ppml-boun...@arin.net] On Behalf Of Andrew Dul
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 9:40 PM
To: arin-ppml@arin.net
Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2016-8: Removal of Indirect POC 
Validation Requirement

There has been some good discussion about this draft. 

At this time, it seems like perhaps there is disagreement within the community 
on the purpose and use of reassignment records.  As we have gone past IPv4 
run-out, perhaps now is the time to consider if reassignment records provide 
the same level of value to the Internet community that they used to provide.  
Doing reassignments was one of the primary ways that a service provider showed 
utilization to ARIN.  This could also be done by having an organization share 
these records directly with ARIN during a resource request.

I'd like to throw out a few open ended questions that perhaps will guide the AC 
as it considers this draft:

1. Do you think reassignment records provide value to the Internet community 
from an operational perspective?  Do they provide the same value if they are 
not accurate?  At what point does the "record set" as a whole become invaluable 
because the data in the records isn't representative of current reassignments?

2. Who do you think should be responsible for ensuring that resource records 
are accurate?  The organization doing the reassignment?  ARIN? 
Someone else?

3. Given we are past IPv4 run-out, do reassignment records provide the same 
value to ARIN for the purposes of determining utilization?  Should other 
methods be used to determine utilization going forward?

4. Would you support the concept of removing reassignment records for which a 
POC has not been validated after a certain period of time?  1 year?  2 years?  
x years?

5. Would you support the idea that a new reassignment could not be added to the 
database without the approval of the POC who is receiving the resource by 
reassignment?

Thanks for your input

Andrew



On 12/20/2016 10:09 AM, ARIN wrote:
>
>
> ##########
>
> ARIN-2016-8: Removal of Indirect POC Validation Requirement
>
> Problem Statement:
>
> There are over 600,000 POCs registered in Whois that are only 
> associated with indirect assignments (reassignments) and indirect 
> allocations (reallocations). NRPM 3.6 requires ARIN to contact all 
> 600,000+ of these every year to validate the POC information. This is 
> problematic for a few reasons:
>
> 1) ARIN does not have a business relationships with these POCs. By 
> conducting POC validation via email, ARIN is sending Unsolicited 
> Commercial Emails. Further, because of NRPM 3.6.1, ARIN cannot offer 
> an opt-out mechanism. Finally, ARIN's resultant listing on anti-spam 
> lists causes unacceptable damage to ARIN's ability to conduct ordinary 
> business over email
>
> 2) ARIN has previously reported that POC validation to reassignments 
> causes tremendous work for the staff. It receives many angry phone 
> calls and emails about the POC validation process. I believe the ARIN 
> staff should be focused on POC validation efforts for directly issued 
> resources, as that has more value to internet operations and law 
> enforcement than end-user POC information.
>
> Policy statement:
>
> Replace the first sentence of 3.6.1:
>
> "During ARIN's annual Whois POC validation, an email will be sent to 
> every POC in the Whois database."
>
> with
>
> "During ARIN's annual Whois POC validation, an email will be sent to 
> every POC that is a contact for a direct assignment, direct 
> allocation, reallocation, and AS number, and their associated OrgIDs."
>
> Timetable for implementation: Immediate 
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