From memsvcs at arin.net Wed Jun 4 15:33:05 2003 From: memsvcs at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 15:33:05 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [arin-announce] Policy Proposal 2003-9: WHOIS Acceptable Use Policy and Bulk WHOIS Access Message-ID: Policy Proposal 2003-9: WHOIS Acceptable Use Policy and Bulk WHOIS Access ARIN welcomes feedback and discussion about the following policy proposal. This policy was originally proposed in the weeks leading up to the ARIN Public Policy meeting held in Memphis, Tennessee, April 7-8, 2003. As a result of the discussions that occurred on the public policy mailing list and at the meeting, the ARIN Advisory Council decided to recommend to the ARIN Board of Trustees that the proposed policy be abandoned in its present form and that a new policy effort be undertaken. In the weeks following the Public Policy meeting the ARIN AC further discussed this policy and noted the discussion that took place on the public policy list. It was noted that with wording changes that had been suggested, this policy should be discussed further. During the week of May 28, the Chair of the AC contacted the author of the original proposal and discussed this possibility with him. They agreed that this would be a good solution. Accordingly, the AC has voted to recommend that this proposal be further discussed. This policy proposal discussion will take place on the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List (ppml at arin.net). Subscription information is available at http://www.arin.net/mailing_lists/index.html Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) ### * ### Policy Proposal 2003-9: WHOIS Acceptable Use Policy and Bulk WHOIS Access This proposal obsoletes current Bulk WHOIS Policy 2002-4 and changes current Bulk Whois Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) to become general WHOIS Acceptable Use policy that would apply to all WHOIS queries. In particular: 1. An acceptable use policy called "WHOIS Acceptable Use Policy" is to be published on ARIN website as follows: "ARIN WHOIS Data is for Internet operations and technical research purposes pertaining to Internet Operations only. It may not be used for advertising, direct marketing, marketing research or similar purposes. Use of ARIN WHOIS data for these activities is explicitly forbidden. ARIN requests to be notified of any such activities or suspicions thereof. Redistributing ARIN WHOIS Data is explicitly forbidden. It is permissible to publish data on an individual query or small number of queries at a time basis as long as reasonable precautions are taken to prevent automated querying by database harvesters. ARIN reserves the right to restrict access to the WHOIS database in its sole discretion to ensure operational stability. ARIN may restrict or terminate your access to the WHOIS database for failure to abide by these terms of use. ' 2. Automated Internet-based access to WHOIS data with individual queries (such as by using WHOIS protocol) will include a one-line statement that data is provided and can only be used according to 'ARIN WHOIS Acceptable Use Policy' with a link to where the policy is published on ARIN website, all other access to WHOIS data must include entire ARIN WHOIS AUP. 3. A policy for bulk WHOIS access will be published on ARIN website as follows: "Access to the entire WHOIS database or large portion of it may be obtained by any organization or individual provided that this organization or individual agrees in writing to ARIN WHOIS Acceptable Use Policy. WHOIS data provided under bulk WHOIS access will not include any information that is marked as private. Access to WHOIS data may be by way of: Individual WHOIS queries FTP or other type of download Hard media distribution (such as CDROM) Access provided by means of the public Internet must require authentication if the protocol being used supports it. ARIN may request authentication information be changed on a regular basis for those who desire repeat access to the bulk data. Bulk WHOIS requests for CDROM or similar hard media delivery must be filled and signed individually for each request and ARIN may charge an appropriate fee to cover media and labor costs." From memsvcs at arin.net Tue Jun 24 12:38:48 2003 From: memsvcs at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 12:38:48 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [arin-announce] Call for Comments: ASO AC Draft Documents Message-ID: The ASO Secretariat has announced the following call for comments. ARIN Member Services --------------------------------------------------------------------- Greetings The Address Supporting Organization (ASO) is pleased to call for public comments on the following draft documents: * Procedures for the election of AC Chair and Co-Chairs (draft) - This draft document defines the role of ASO Address Council (AC) Chairs and Co-Chairs describes the process of electing individuals to serve in these roles. - http://www.aso.icann.org/docs/chair-selection-draft20030510.html * ASO-AC ICANN Board Selection Procedures (draft) - This draft document describes the procedures and criteria the AC should adopt in selecting individuals to serve on the ICANN Board of Directors - http://www.aso.icann.org/docs/bod-selection-draft20030424.html * ASO Roadmap 2003 (draft) - This draft document sets out the proposed work plan for the AC in 2003. - http://www.aso.icann.org/docs/roadmap-2003.html If you have any comments or questions on any of these documents, please direct them to the aso-policy mailing list. For subscription details, please refer to: http://www.aso.icann.org/lists/ Kind regards - ASO Secretariat -- * on-line archive: http://aso.icann.org/wilma-bin/wilma/aso-announce * * To unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe" to aso-announce-request at aso.icann.org * From memsvcs at arin.net Tue Jun 24 12:55:18 2003 From: memsvcs at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 12:55:18 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [arin-announce] AfriNIC Announces Decision On Host Country Proposals Message-ID: The following announcement was released by the AfriNIC Board of Trustees. ARIN Member Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement by the AfriNIC BOT Concerning AfriNIC Host Country Proposals ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ Date: 23 June 2003 ------------------ 1. There was a call for proposals in terms of the hosting proposal document as published on the AfriNIC web site. The BOT received 5 proposals 2 of which were received after the deadline. All the proposals were accepted by the AfriNIC BoT. The proposals are published at http://www.afrinic.org/AfriNIC-Hosting-Proposals.shtml 2. AfriNIC held a public meeting in Kampala on 15 June 2003, where the host country proposals were presented. 3. Having heard the proposals that Board requested that at closed meeting be held to find a consensus on the matter between interested parties. The following were present at that meeting; * Board Members including Nii Quaynor, Richard Bell, Charles Musisi, Theo Kramer and Alan Barrett. * Members Of The Working Group from Montevideo including Sunday Folayan, Brian Longwe, and Anthony Brooks. * Representatives of Host Country Bidders - including representatives from Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, South Africa, and Mauritius. 4. Those present were are able to agree on the following consensus. As with all compromises the solution did not meet 100% of everyone's expectations, however it was agreed that all parties present found the proposal to be an acceptable and workable one. Notwithstanding the need for cost control and operational efficiency, it was decided that the operational functions of AfriNIC could be effectively divided as follows; a. Administrative Centre. Including legal incorporation, business manager, and, secretariat. b. Training Centre. To co-ordinate and implement all the training activities for AfriNIC. c. Technical Operations Centre. Including hardware & infrastructure facilities. d. Back Up & Disaster Recovery Facility for Technical Operations. 5. The consensus was to allocate these functions as follows: a. Administrative Centre - Mauritius b. Training Centre - Ghana c. Technical Operations Centre - South Africa d. Back Up & Disaster Recovery Centre - Egypt 6. It was agreed that the board should issue revised terms of reference for each of the functionalities so that the successful bidders in each section could produce detailed implementation plans and finalize funding for their respective areas of responsibility. These revised TORs would be discussed with bidders. 7. Subsequent to the Kampala meeting, the AfriNIC Board of Trustees has unanimously voted to ratify the the consensus proposal from the Kampala meeting as described above. Whatever our collective interests and reservations, consensus requires compromise. We have a workable proposal on the table with consensus from the majority of interested parties. That proposal has been ratified by the board and we take this opportunity to inform the community at large of the board's decision. It is our sincere hope that the process will now begin to progress rapidly and we thank the community for their continued support. Yours sincerely, The AfriNIC Board of Trustees