I support this policy and as indicated from remotely at ARIN 43 anything to help keep the assignment contacts up to date and accurate is a good thing.
-- Brian Virginia Tech bjo...@vt.edu > On Apr 15, 2019, at 2:04 PM, ARIN <i...@arin.net> wrote: > > The ARIN Advisory Council (AC) met on 10 April 2019 and decided to send the > following Recommended Draft Policy to Last Call: > > ARIN-2017-12: POC Notification and Validation Upon Reassignment or > Reallocation > > Feedback is encouraged during the Last Call period. All comments should be > provided to the Public Policy Mailing List. Last Call will expire on 29 April > 2019. > > The Recommended Draft Policy text is below and available at: > https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/ > > The ARIN Policy Development Process is available at: > https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/pdp/ > > Regards, > > Sean Hopkins > Policy Analyst > American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) > > > > Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2017-12: POC Notification and Validation Upon > Reassignment or Reallocation > > AC Assessment of Conformance with the Principles of Internet Number Resource > Policy: > > This recommended draft policy: (1) enables fair and impartial number > administration as it ensures that ARIN has the means to communicate with > organizations receiving reallocations or detailed reassignments, and does so > in a clear, complete, concise and unambiguous manner; (2) is technically > sound in that it supports ARIN’s ability to maintain the unique registration > of Internet number resources; and (3) has community support. > > Problem Statement: > > Some ISPs assign individuals to be POCs for reassigned blocks without > consultation of the individual they are inserting into Whois. For example, > during the reassignment/reallocation process, some large ISPs automatically > create POCs from their customer’s order form. This process is automated for > many ISPs and therefore the resulting POCs are not validated prior to being > created in the ARIN Whois database. This creates unknowing POCs that have no > idea what Whois is or even who ARIN is at the time they receive the annual > POC validation email. It can also create multiple POCs per email address > causing that same person to receive a multitude of POC Validation emails each > year. > > This policy proposal seeks to prevent the situation where a POC is > unwittingly and unintentionally inserted into Whois. Doing so will reduce the > significant amount of time that ARIN staff spend fielding phone calls from > POCs who have no idea they are in Whois. > > The proposal will improve the overall POC validation situation, by ensuring > that all reallocation or detailed reassignment requests are related to a > pre-existing receiving organization with at least one valid POC object, and > by requesting that any other existing invalid POC objects are validated. > > Policy statement: > > Insert one new section into NRPM 3: > > 3.7 POC Notification and Validation Upon Reassignment or Reallocation > > When a request for reallocation or detailed reassignment is made to ARIN, the > receiving organization must already be in the ARIN database and associated > with at least one validated POC object. If there are no validated POC objects > associated with the receiving organization, ARIN shall reject the request. > > In addition to notifying the requester, ARIN will also notify, via email, all > POCs associated with the receiving organization, whether the request was > successful or not, and will request validation of any invalid POC objects > associated with the receiving organization. > > Note: Simple reassignments are made without any linkage to an organization or > POC objects in the ARIN database. > _______________________________________________ > ARIN-PPML > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List (ARIN-PPML@arin.net). > Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: > https://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml > Please contact i...@arin.net if you experience any issues.
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