On Sep 5, 2012, at 3:32 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote: > > My interpretation was what Randy implied, and that ARIN > wants an agreement with everyone who gets a (presumably > unique to the agreement) TAL to protect ARIN. That would > seem like a lot of overhead to maintain to me (since as I recall > a TAL may never, ever (ok, very rarely) change), but then > appropriate risk management has always been an interesting > thing to watch in the (potentially litigious) ARIN region.
I'll let Randy speak for Randy (only he could do such a fine job). I do agree with Chris (and many others) that this whole thing falls apart pretty quickly without a single root (e.g., think of the browser CA problem) -- for many reasons. I'd wager what ARIN is going to do in said "Relying Party Agreement" is tell RPs (i.e., *relying* parties) that they ought not rely to much on the data for routing, and if they do and something gets hosed, ARIN's not at fault -- but I'll wait to read the actual agreement before speculating more. -danny
