From info at arin.net Tue Jun 1 13:00:14 2010 From: info at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:00:14 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Legacy RSA Availability Extended to 31 December 2010 Message-ID: <4C053C9E.1040005@arin.net> The ARIN Board of Trustees has extended the availability of the Legacy Registration Services Agreement (LRSA) in order to allow additional organizations to participate. Legacy number resource holders now have until 31 December 2010 to enter into a Legacy RSA with ARIN. Any organization or individual in the ARIN service region holding legacy Internet number resources not covered by any other registration services agreement with ARIN is invited to sign. In light of the impending IPv4 depletion and to provide flexibility for the community to set future number resource policy in this area, ARIN may discontinue offering the Legacy RSA after 31 December 2010. To view the current Legacy RSA or its FAQ, please see: https://www.arin.net/resources/legacy/ Anyone needing information about legacy space in general or the Legacy RSA can call the Registration Services Help Desk at +1-703-227-0660 or send an e-mail to hostmaster at arin.net. Regards, John Curran President and CEO American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Wed Jun 2 10:11:27 2010 From: info at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:11:27 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Updated DNSSEC KSK Rollover Information Message-ID: <4C06668F.5050001@arin.net> ARIN is notifying the community that it has just increased the KSK rollover period from one to two years.* We have increased the rollover period as a cautionary measure to mitigate additional load on authoritative nameservers. For more information about ARIN's DNSSEC key maintenance procedure please see: https://www.arin.net/resources/dnssec/key_rollover.html Regards, Mark Kosters Chief Technology Officer American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) *We anticipate that our parent zone (in-addr.arpa) will be signed within two years and rollovers will then be transparent to the community, i.e. they would not involve manual reconfiguration at each key rollover event. From info at arin.net Thu Jun 3 12:23:36 2010 From: info at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:23:36 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Maintenance Work Scheduled for Saturday, 5 June Message-ID: <4C07D708.8090601@arin.net> On Saturday, 5 June 2010, ARIN will be conducting maintenance on back-end systems. The work will take place from 7:00 AM until approximately 11:00 AM EDT. ARIN will experience interruption of two external services while this maintenance is performed. For the duration, any mail sent to Registration Services (hostmaster at arin.net and reassign at arin.net) will be queued, and you will not be able to use your ARIN Online account to submit transactions. Once the systems are back online, queued mail will be processed, and you will regain use of your ARIN Online account. All other publicly available services (WHOIS, IRR, etc.) will not be affected by this outage. Thank you for your patience and cooperation, Mark Kosters Chief Technical Officer American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From jcurran at arin.net Thu Jun 3 21:13:53 2010 From: jcurran at arin.net (John Curran) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 21:13:53 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] X.509 Certificates to be Deprecated [Follow-up for clarity] In-Reply-To: <4BFFCF2B.9020904@arin.net> References: <4BFFCF2B.9020904@arin.net> Message-ID: <45E1FC43-4457-482F-8752-39D9907F724A@arin.net> On May 28, 2010, at 10:11 AM, Member Services wrote: > > ARIN is in the process of transitioning many of our current services to the new web-based ARIN Online platform. Because the web-based platform will use a more secure authentication model, ARIN will be deprecating support for X.509 certificates. After 28 May 2010, ARIN will not accept new requests for X.509 certificates. ARIN will continue supporting the use of X.509 certificates for user authentication until late 2010. After that time, all transactions with X.509 signatures will no longer be authenticated. We encourage people who are using X.509 to either move to PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) or to use ARIN Online as new features become available. For clarity and avoidance of doubt, this announcement only pertains to the use of the X.509 authentication method for submission of transactions to ARIN. An extremely small number of organizations had ever made use of the X.509 authentication method for submitting transactions, and it was not cost-effective to continue to develop and support it as we move to the more general purpose and more secure ARIN Online model. This announcement does not relate in any manner to the ongoing development and deployment of RPKI services (which provides for providing digital certificates for number resources.) The RPKI project moving full speed ahead; for details, refer to the "Upcoming Services - DNSSEC and RPKI" presentation given by ARIN's CTO Mark Kosters at the recent Toronto Public Meeting: Thanks! /John John Curran President and CEO ARIN From info at arin.net Fri Jun 4 11:05:07 2010 From: info at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:05:07 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Coming Improvements to ARIN's Whois Directory Service Message-ID: <4C091623.3000809@arin.net> ARIN is pleased to announce that it plans to deploy an improved Whois service called Whois-RWS on 26 June 2010. Included in the deployment are the following services that provide the general public with access to ARIN's registration data. * a RESTful Web Service (RWS) * a NICNAME/WHOIS port 43 service * a user-friendly web site (http://whois.arin.net) A demo of this service has been available since October 2009. The demonstration service will be available at http://whoisrws-demo.arin.net until the production service is deployed on 26 June 2010. When using Whois-RWS you will notice some differences in behavior for certain queries and corresponding result sets on the NICNAME/WHOIS port 43 service. ARIN will make a separate announcement on 11 June when it publishes detailed documentation on these differences along with the demonstration service update. ARIN continues to welcome community participation on the Whois-RWS mailing list, and we invite you to subscribe and share your thoughts and suggestions at: http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-whoisrws More detailed information on these changes and other future features that may impact the community at ARIN is available at: https://www.arin.net/features/ Regards, Mark Kosters Chief Technical Officer American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Fri Jun 4 14:12:08 2010 From: info at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:12:08 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Postel Scholarship: Please Resubmit Applications Message-ID: <4C0941F8.7070204@arin.net> Forwarding along... Dear Colleagues, A technical malfunction may have resulted in the loss of some applications for the 2010 Jon Postel Network Operator's Scholarship. If you submitted an application in the past weeks, we ask you to resubmit your application. We apologize for the inconvenience. The deadline for submissions for the Jon Postel Scholarship has been extended to 23:59:59 UTC on 20 June 2010. http://www.nanog.org/scholarships/postel.php If you have questions, please contact postelnos at nanog.org. Again, on behalf of the Postel Network Operator Scholarship committee, we are sorry for the inconvenience. -Rob Seastrom Regards, Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Fri Jun 4 16:04:47 2010 From: info at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:04:47 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Global IPv6 Deployment Monitoring Survey Message-ID: <4C095C5F.5030109@arin.net> ARIN encourages its community to participate in the 2010 Global IPv6 Deployment Monitoring Survey being conducted by GNKS Consult and TNO and sponsored by the RIPE NCC. The survey is now available at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/IPv6deploymentmonitoring2010 The survey will close on 1 July 2010. All five Regional Internet Registries have committed to soliciting participation in this survey in order to compile the most complete global IPv6 deployment data possible. The survey results will provide a better understanding of current IPv6 deployment, and what still needs to be done to ensure the Internet community is ready for the widespread adoption of IPv6. ARIN/CAIDA performed a similar survey in 2008, and it was repeated in 2009 in the RIPE and APNIC regions. The 2010 survey will allow for some comparison of progress, which will be extremely valuable in determining the necessary next steps. The goal is to establish a comprehensive view of present IPv6 penetration and future plans for IPv6 deployment. The survey is composed of 23 questions and can be completed in about 15 minutes. For those without IPv6 allocations or assignments, or who have not yet deployed IPv6, the questions will be fewer in number. Results of the IPv6 Deployment Monitoring Survey will be made public in the fall. All participants that provide their name and contact information on the survey form will receive the draft survey analysis when available. Please also indicate if you are willing to share additional data with the TNO and GNKS Consult IPv6 Deployment Monitoring team. Any questions concerning the survey itself should be addressed to . Regards, Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Mon Jun 7 11:16:32 2010 From: info at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:16:32 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] =?windows-1252?q?NRPM_2010=2E2_=96_New_Policy_Imp?= =?windows-1252?q?lemented?= Message-ID: <4C0D0D50.9050301@arin.net> On 1 July 2009 the ARIN Board of Trustees, based on the recommendation of the Advisory Council and noting that the Policy Development Process had been followed, adopted the following number resource policy: 2008-7: Identify Invalid WHOIS POC?s A new version of the ARIN Number Resource Policy Manual (NRPM) has been published to the ARIN website. NRPM version 2010.2 contains the implementation of 2008-7. The new policy text can be found in the NRPM in Section 3.6 Annual WHOIS POC Validation. For more information on POC validation, please see: https://www.arin.net/resources/services/poc_validation.html NRPM version 2010.2 is effective 7 June 2010 and supersedes the previous version. See the Change Log for information regarding revisions to the policy manual. The NRPM is available at: https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html The Change Log is available at: https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm_changelog.html Draft policies and proposals are available at: https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/ The PDP is available at: https://www.arin.net/policy/pdp.html Regards, Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Mon Jun 7 11:32:30 2010 From: info at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:32:30 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] New ARIN Online Features Released 5 June 2010 Message-ID: <4C0D110E.8050805@arin.net> ARIN is pleased to announce the implementation of Policy 3.6, "Annual WHOIS POC Validation." ARIN will be e-mailing POCs requesting them to validate their Whois contact information. This message will contain links to the requisite ARIN Online forms to expedite this process. For more information on ARIN?s POC validation efforts, refer to: https://www.arin.net/resources/services/poc_validation.html In addition, ARIN has added a Downloads feature to ARIN Online. Account holders who have signed ARIN?s Bulk Whois Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) can download Bulk Whois data as well as a report of resources with no valid POCs. Full details on the Bulk Whois process are available at: https://www.arin.net/resources/request/bulkwhois.html Learn more about ARIN Online and future features at: https://www.arin.net/public/aboutARINonline.xhtml Log in today and check out these enhancements, or create your ARIN Online account at: https://www.arin.net Please send any questions, comments, or issues to: hostmaster at arin.net. Regards, John Curran President and CEO American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Mon Jun 7 12:10:58 2010 From: info at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:10:58 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] =?windows-1252?q?Consultation_=96_Specified_Trans?= =?windows-1252?q?fer_Listing_Service?= Message-ID: <4C0D1A12.6040003@arin.net> Based on community input received during the recent Transfer Listing Service Consultation, ARIN has revised the Proposed Transfer Listing Service and is seeking further community input on the Specified Transfer Listing Service (STLS). This will provide a mechanism by which validated organizations may determine potentially complementary parties suitable to participate in a transfer of IPv4 number resources per ARIN?s Number Resource Policy Manual, section 8.3, ?Transfers to Specified Recipients? The proposed Specified Transfer Listing Service is located at: www.arin.net/resources/transfer_listing.html. It is ARIN?s intent to make the Specified Transfer Listing Service available prior to ARIN?s October 2010 Public Policy and Members meeting and it shall continue to operate indefinitely as long as adequate demand exists for the service. ARIN reserves the unilateral right to modify or discontinue the service with appropriate advanced notice to participating parties. Comments regarding this proposed Specified Transfer Listing Service can be submitted through the ARIN Consultation and Suggestion Process, available at: https://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/index.html Discussion on arin-consult at arin.net will close on 7 July 2010, at noon EDT. ARIN welcomes community-wide participation. Please address any process questions to info at arin.net. Regards, Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Thu Jun 10 16:04:13 2010 From: info at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:04:13 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] IANA IPv4 Free Pool is Now at 6.25% Message-ID: <4C11453D.1070406@arin.net> In January, the Number Resource Organization (NRO) announced that only ten percent of IPv4 address space remained unallocated. Since then, IANA allocations to the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) has reduced the remaining pool of addresses to just over six percent, with an anticipated runout in 2011. With this in mind, we once again encourage all organizations to adopt IPv6. ARIN has been allocating IPv6 addresses since 1999 and has been actively advocating the need to deploy IPv6. In 2007, the ARIN Board of Trustees resolved to educate and inform the Internet community regarding IPv4 depletion and the increasing need to adopt IPv6. This resolution became part of a larger IPv6 outreach campaign to encourage those currently running IPv4 to begin adopting IPv6. In April of 2009, ARIN contacted, by certified letter, the CEOs of organizations that currently hold IPv4 resources in its region to raise executive awareness of IPv4 depletion and IPv6 adoption. To keep up with ARIN?s current outreach activities and locations, please visit http://www.teamARIN.net/calendar. Without IPv6, the Internet?s expansion and innovation could be limited. Delaying IPv6 deployment may strain the work of Internet operators, application developers, and end users everywhere. Furthermore, organizations whose business model is dependent on availability of IP addresses may find their growth limited without adopting production IPv6. There are many ways to make your organization?s services available using IPv6, depending on your network setup and the services you have deployed. ARIN hosts an IPv6 Wiki to facilitate discussion and information sharing on IPv6 adoption topics and issues, which can be found at http://www.getipv6.info. If you have not already, now is the time to determine how your services will grow and be maintained using IPv6 addresses. Regards, John Curran President and CEO American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Fri Jun 11 09:59:51 2010 From: info at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:59:51 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] [Fwd: Policy Proposal 115: Global Policy for IPv4 Allocations by the IANA Post Exhaustion] Message-ID: <4C124157.6000701@arin.net> The following is a new policy proposal that has been posted to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List for discussion on that list. Reminder: RSS feeds of all posts to the Public Policy Mailing List (PPML) and just postings by ARIN to PPML are available at: https://www.arin.net/participate/mailing_lists/rss.html Regards, Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Policy Proposal 115: Global Policy for IPv4 Allocations by the IANA Post Exhaustion Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:56:20 -0400 From: Member Services To: arin-ppml at arin.net ARIN received the following policy proposal and is posting it to the Public Policy Mailing List (PPML) in accordance with the Policy Development Process. This proposal is in the first stage of the Policy Development Process. ARIN staff will perform the Clarity and Understanding step to make sure that they understand the proposal and believe the community will as well. Staff will report their results to the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) within 10 days. The AC will review the proposal at their next regularly scheduled meeting (if the period before the next regularly scheduled meeting is less than 10 days, then the period may be extended to the subsequent regularly scheduled meeting). The AC will decide how to utilize the proposal and announce the decision to the PPML. In the meantime, the AC invites everyone to comment on the proposal on the PPML, particularly their support or non-support and the reasoning behind their opinion. Such participation contributes to a thorough vetting and provides important guidance to the AC in their deliberations. Draft Policies and Proposals under discussion can be found at: https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/index.html The ARIN Policy Development Process can be found at: https://www.arin.net/policy/pdp.html Mailing list subscription information can be found at: https://www.arin.net/mailing_lists/ Regards, Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) ## * ## Policy Proposal 115: Global Policy for IPv4 Allocations by the IANA Post Exhaustion Proposal Originator: Martin Hannigan on behalf of authors for ASO AC/NRO NC Proposal Version: 1.0 Date: 11 June 2010 Proposal type: new Policy term: permanent Policy statement: 1. Reclamation Pool Upon adoption of this IPv4 address policy by the ICANN Board of Directors, the IANA shall establish a Reclamation Pool to be utilized post RIR IPv4 exhaustion as defined in Section 5. As soon as the first RIR exhausts its inventory of IP address space, this Reclamation Pool will be declared active. 2. Returning Address Space to the IANA The IANA will accept into the Reclamation Pool all eligible IPv4 address space that is offered for return. Eligible address space includes any addresses not previously designated for special use by an IETF published RFC explicitly offered for return to the IANA by the RIR to which the space is assigned or the registrant of record where no RIR holds authority. 3. Address Allocations from the Reclamation Pool by the IANA Allocations from the Reclamation Pool may begin once the pool is declared active. Aggregates in the Reclamation Pool may be divided on a CIDR boundary to the longest minimum allocation or assignment of any of the RIRs in order to complete these allocations. Addresses that are left over will be held in the Reclamation Pool until additional adjacent IP addresses can be returned to rejoin addresses on CIDR boundaries to meet minumum allocation requirements, or a minimum allocation unit is set that allows continued allocations from the pool. 4. RIR Eligibility for Receiving Allocations from the Reclamation Pool Upon the exhaustion of an RIR's free space pool, an RIR will become eligible to request address space from the IANA Reclamation Pool when it publicly announces via its respective global announcements email list and by posting a notice on its website that it has exhausted its supply of IPv4 address space. Exhaustion is defined as an inventory of less than the equivalent of a single /8 and the inability to further assign address space to its customers in units equal to or shorter than the longest of the RIR's policy defined minimum allocation unit. Any RIR that is formed after the ICANN Board of Directors has ratified this policy is not eligible to utilize this policy to obtain IPv4 address space from the IANA. 5. Reporting Requirements The IANA shall publish on at least a weekly basis a report that is publicly available which at a minimum details all address space that has been received and that has been allocated. The IANA shall publish a Returned Address Space Report which indicates what resources were returned, by whom and when. The IANA shall publish an Allocations Report on at least a weekly basis which at a minimum indicates what IPv4 address space has been allocated, which RIR received the allocation and when. The IANA shall publish a public notice confirming RIR eligibility subsequent to Section 4. 6. No Transfer Rights Address space assigned from the Reclamation Pool may be transferred if there is an ICANN Board ratified Global Transfer Policy in force at the time of the implementation of this policy. In the absence of an ICANN Board ratified Global Transfer Policy, no transfers are allowed. The definition of Global Transfer Policy for the purpose of this policy is a Global Policy that has been processed in compliance with the Memorandum of Understanding "MoU"[2] and Attachments as agreed to in October 2004 by ICANN and the RIRs and ratified by the ICANN Board of Directors. 7. Definitions IANA - Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, or its successor ICANN - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or its successor RIR - Regional Internet Registry as recognized by ICANN MOU - Memorandum of Understanding between ICANN and the RIRs IPv4 - Internet Protocol Version Four(4), the target protocol of this Global Policy Free Space Pool - IPv4 Addresses that are in inventory at any RIR, and/or the IANA 8. Contributors The following individuals donated their time, resources and effort to develop this proposal on behalf of the Internet Community: Steve Bertrand Chris Grundemann Martin Hannigan Aaron Hughes Louie Lee Matt Pounsett Jason Schiller 9. References 1. http://www.icann.org/en/general/allocation-remaining-ipv4-space.htm Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address Space, IANA, Retrieved 27 April 2010 2. http://aso.icann.org/documents/memorandum-of-understanding/index.html ICANN Address Supporting Organization (ASO) MoU, Retrieved 27 May 2010. Rationale: This policy defines the process for the allocation of IPv4 addresses post "Exhaustion Phase"[1]. In order to fulfill the requirements of this policy, the IANA must set up a reclamation pool to hold addresses in and distribute from in compliance with this policy. This policy establishes the process by which IPv4 addresses can be returned to and re-issued from the IANA post Exhaustion Phase. This document does not stipulate performance requirements in the provision of services by the IANA to an RIR in accordance with this policy. Such requirements should be specified by appropriate agreements among the RIRs and ICANN. The intent of this policy is as follows: * To include all post Exhaustion Phase IPv4 address space returned to the IANA. * Allows allocations by the IANA from the Reclamation Pool once the Exhaustion Phase has been completed. * Defines "need" as the basis for further IPv4 allocations by the IANA. * Does not differentiate any class of IPv4 address space unless otherwise defined by an RFC. * Encourage the return of IPv4 address space by making this allocation process available. * Disallow transfers of addresses sourced from the Reclamation Pool in the absence of an IPv4 Global Transfer Policy to neutralize transfer process inequities across RIR regions. * Applies to legacy IPv4 Address Space initially allocated by the IANA to users including the allocations to RIRs. * Includes any length of fragments currently held by the IANA now or in the future. Timetable for implementation: Immediate From info at arin.net Fri Jun 11 16:30:40 2010 From: info at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:30:40 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Now Available: Whois-RWS Differences Documentation Message-ID: <4C129CF0.9060208@arin.net> ARIN is deploying an improved Whois service called Whois-RWS on 26 June 2010. When using the Whois-RWS you will notice some differences in behavior for certain queries and corresponding result sets on the NICNAME/WHOIS port 43 service. Detailed documentation on these differences is now available at: https://www.arin.net/resources/whoisrws/whois_diff.html ARIN?s Directory Service for registration data has used the NICNAME/WHOIS protocol since its inception. The limitations of the NICNAME/WHOIS protocol are well known and documented in RFC3912. Whois-RWS was created as an alternative to the ARIN Whois and will provide much richer functionality and capability to the community. A demo of this service has been available since October 2009. The demonstration service is available at: http://whoisrws-demo.arin.net. ARIN continues to welcome community participation on the Whois-RWS mailing list, and we invite you to subscribe and share your thoughts and suggestions at: http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-whoisrws More detailed information on these changes and other future features that may impact the community at ARIN is available at: https://www.arin.net/features/ Regards, Mark Kosters Chief Technical Officer American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Mon Jun 14 12:07:30 2010 From: info at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:07:30 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] ARIN Board Adopts Election Related Bylaws Changes Message-ID: <4C1653C2.1070705@arin.net> Based on ARIN community input collected during the last election cycle, the ARIN Board of Trustees reviewed the election process and is working to put improvements in place and announce them to the community prior to the Call for Nominations on 12 July. To address some of the community input with regard to the nominations process, the Board created a Nomination Committee (NomCom) Charter that provides more guidelines and greater transparency with regard to the committee?s composition and scope of responsibility. The new NomCom charter is available at: https://www.arin.net/participate/elections/board.html#nomcom Two revisions to the ARIN Bylaws were made to implement the desired election process improvements. At its meeting on 27 May 2010 the Board of Trustees adopted the following changes: * Lowered the percentage of required signatures for nomination by petition from five to two percent of General Members in good standing as of the established opening date of the nomination period * Added reference to a Nomination Committee charter containing the Committee selection procedure and scope of responsibilities, which is approved by the Board and publicly available on the ARIN website. View these changes in the Bylaws change log at: https://www.arin.net/about_us/corp_docs/bylaws_changelog.html We look forward to announcing further election process related improvements in early July. Regards, Paul Vixie Chairman, Board of Trustees American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Wed Jun 16 10:00:46 2010 From: info at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:00:46 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] ARIN Call for Volunteers to Serve on Nomination Committee Message-ID: <4C18D90E.4000608@arin.net> ARIN is issuing a call for volunteers to serve on the 2010 Nomination Committee (NomCom). The Nomination Committee shall be responsible for identifying, recruiting, and certifying a properly selected slate of Trustee and Advisory Council Candidates to be placed in nomination before the membership for election. (Bylaws, Article VIII, Section 2.a.) NomCom business is conducted via teleconference. The responsibilities of the Committee are explained in the Bylaws at: https://www.arin.net/about_us/corp_docs/bylaws.html To address some of the community input with regard to the nominations process, the Board created a NomCom Charter that provides more guidelines and greater transparency with regard to the committee?s composition and scope of responsibility. The new NomCom charter is available at: https://www.arin.net/participate/elections/board.html#nomcom The NomCom consists of two (2) representatives from the Board of Trustees, two (2) representatives from the Advisory Council, and three (3) representatives from ARIN General Members in good standing. General Member in good standing is defined at: https://www.arin.net/participate/membership/member.html ARIN will soon issue a call for nominations for the 2010 Board of Trustees and Advisory Council elections. We are currently seeking three (3) volunteer General Members in good standing to serve on the Committee. Please note that candidates for this year's Board of Trustees and Advisory Council elections are not eligible to serve on the NomCom. If you are willing to serve, please submit your name, e-mail address, ARIN member organization name, and ORG ID to info at arin.net no later than 17:00 ET on Friday, June 18 2010. Three eligible member volunteers will be randomly selected to serve on the Committee. Regards, Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Wed Jun 16 13:19:11 2010 From: info at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:19:11 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Reminder: Global IPv6 Deployment Monitoring Survey Message-ID: <4C19078F.3070905@arin.net> ARIN encourages its community to participate in the 2010 Global IPv6 Deployment Monitoring Survey being conducted by GNKS Consult and TNO and sponsored by the RIPE NCC. The survey is now available at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/IPv6deploymentmonitoring2010 The survey will close on 1 July 2010. All five Regional Internet Registries have committed to soliciting participation in this survey in order to compile the most complete global IPv6 deployment data possible. The survey results will provide a better understanding of current IPv6 deployment, and what still needs to be done to ensure the Internet community is ready for the widespread adoption of IPv6. ARIN/CAIDA performed a similar survey in 2008, and it was repeated in 2009 in the RIPE and APNIC region. The 2010 survey will allow for some comparison of progress, which will be extremely valuable in determining the necessary next steps. The goal is to establish a comprehensive view of present IPv6 penetration and future plans for IPv6 deployment. The survey is composed of 23 questions and can be completed in about 15 minutes. For those without IPv6 allocations or assignments, or who have not yet deployed IPv6, the questions will be fewer in number. Results of the IPv6 Deployment Monitoring Survey will be made public in the Fall. All participants that provide their name and contact information on the survey form will receive the draft survey analysis when available. Please also indicate if you are willing to share additional data with the TNO and GNKS Consult IPv6 Deployment Monitoring team. Any questions concerning the survey itself should be addressed to info at gnksconsult.com. Regards, Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Fri Jun 18 10:22:51 2010 From: info at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:22:51 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Policy Proposal 116: Permitted Uses of space reserved under NRPM 4.10 In-Reply-To: <4C1B80F4.8050208@arin.net> References: <4C1B80F4.8050208@arin.net> Message-ID: <4C1B813B.1000203@arin.net> The following is a new policy proposal that has been posted to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List for discussion on that list. Reminder: RSS feeds of all posts to the Public Policy Mailing List (PPML) and just postings by ARIN to PPML are available at: https://www.arin.net/participate/mailing_lists/rss.html Regards, Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) Member Services wrote: > ARIN received the following policy proposal and is posting it to the > Public Policy Mailing List (PPML) in accordance with the Policy > Development Process. > > This proposal is in the first stage of the Policy Development Process. > ARIN staff will perform the Clarity and Understanding step to make sure > that they understand the proposal and believe the community will as > well. Staff will report their results to the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) > within 10 days. > > The AC will review the proposal at their next regularly scheduled > meeting (if the period before the next regularly scheduled meeting is > less than 10 days, then the period may be extended to the subsequent > regularly scheduled meeting). The AC will decide how to utilize the > proposal and announce the decision to the PPML. > > In the meantime, the AC invites everyone to comment on the proposal on > the PPML, particularly their support or non-support and the reasoning > behind their opinion. Such participation contributes to a thorough > vetting and provides important guidance to the AC in their deliberations. > > Draft Policies and Proposals under discussion can be found at: > https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/index.html > > The ARIN Policy Development Process can be found at: > https://www.arin.net/policy/pdp.html > > Mailing list subscription information can be found > at: https://www.arin.net/mailing_lists/ > > Regards, > > Member Services > American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) > > > ## * ## > > > Policy Proposal 116: Permitted Uses of space reserved under NRPM 4.10 > > Proposal Originator: Owen DeLong > > Proposal Version: 1 > > Date: 18 June 2010 > > Proposal type: modify > > Policy term: permanent > > Policy statement: > > Add the following to section 4.10 of the NRPM > > 6. No organization may receive more than 16 /24 equivalents under this > section. > > Add the following to section 4 of the NRPM > > 4.11 Required utilization for subsequent allocation under section 4.10 > > No organization shall receive more than one allocation or assignment > under section 4.10 unless all prior space issued under 4.10 meets the > utilization requirements of this section. > > 1. The most recent 4.10 allocation/assignment must be at least 80% > utilized. > 2. All utilization must be permitted under section 4.12 > 3. All prior 4.10 allocation/assignments must be at least 90% utilized. > > 4.12 Permitted uses of allocations or assignments under section 4.10 > > No organization shall use space received under section 4.10 for any > purpose other than as specified in this section > > 1. To provide the required public IPv4 address(es) for transitional > technologies operated by the recipient organization. > a. Large scale or "Carrier Grade" NAT > b. NAT-PT > c. DS-LITE/AFTeR > d. DNS64 or other transitional DNS enablers > e. etc. > > 2. For other transitional technologies not envisioned at the time of > this proposal, but, in no case for general IPv4 addressing provided to > customers. > > Rationale: > > The current terminology in section 4.10 is vague and could allow a > variety of interpretations which could lead to allocations or > assignments being made to ISPs intending to misuse the space for general > deployment by using IPv6 overlay technologies as a "IPv6 deployments" > requiring IPv4 space for transition. For example, the current policy > could be interpreted to enable an ISP to require IPv4 addresses for all > IPv6 customers to roll IPv6 out as 6rd to customers who would be > otherwise unable to get IPv4 space. This is clearly outside of the > original intent of the proposal which created 4.10 (6rd was not yet > envisioned at the time that was written). This proposal seeks to clarify > that intent and tighten up the requirements for organizations seeking to > get space from this limited final resource so that it truly is available > to facilitate transitional technologies. > > Timetable for implementation: immediate > > For reference, here is the current text of 4.10 > > 4.10 Dedicated IPv4 block to facilitate IPv6 Deployment > > When ARIN receives its last /8 IPv4 allocation from IANA, a contiguous > /10 IPv4 block will be set aside and dedicated to facilitate IPv6 > deployment. Allocations and assignments from this block must be > justified by immediate IPv6 deployment requirements. Examples of such > needs include: IPv4 addresses for key dual stack DNS servers, and NAT-PT > or NAT464 translators. ARIN staff will use their discretion when > evaluating justifications. > > This block will be subject to a minimum size allocation of /28 and a > maximum size allocation of /24. ARIN should use sparse allocation when > possible within that /10 block. > > In order to receive an allocation or assignment under this policy: > 1. the applicant may not have received resources under this policy in > the preceding six months; > 2. previous allocations/assignments under this policy must continue to > meet the justification requirements of this policy; > 3. previous allocations/assignments under this policy must meet the > utilization requirements of end user assignments; > 4. the applicant must demonstrate that no other allocations or > assignments will meet this need; > 5. on subsequent allocation under this policy, ARIN staff may require > applicants to renumber out of previously allocated / assigned space > under this policy in order to minimize non-contiguous allocations. > > > > > > > > > From info at arin.net Mon Jun 21 08:44:52 2010 From: info at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:44:52 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] New Proposals on PPML - 117 and 118 In-Reply-To: <4C1B80F4.8050208@arin.net> References: <4C1B80F4.8050208@arin.net> Message-ID: <4C1F5EC4.3020006@arin.net> Two new proposals have been posted to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List for discussion on that list: 118. IPv6 Subsequent Allocation 117. Required Resource Reviews Reminder: RSS feeds of all posts to the Public Policy Mailing List (PPML) and just postings by ARIN to PPML are available at: https://www.arin.net/participate/mailing_lists/rss.html Regards, Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Wed Jun 23 08:57:15 2010 From: info at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:57:15 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Reminder: Specified Transfer Listing Service Consultation Closes 7 July Message-ID: <4C2204AB.206@arin.net> On 7 June, based on community input received during the recent Transfer Listing Service Consultation, ARIN posted a revised the Proposed Transfer Listing Service for community input. The Specified Transfer Listing Service (STLS) will provide a mechanism by which validated organizations may determine potentially complementary parties suitable to participate in a transfer of IPv4 number resources per ARIN?s Number Resource Policy Manual, section 8.3, ?Transfers to Specified Recipients? The proposed Specified Transfer Listing Service is located at: www.arin.net/resources/transfer_listing.html. It is ARIN?s intent to make the Specified Transfer Listing Service available prior to ARIN?s October 2010 Public Policy and Members meeting and it shall continue to operate indefinitely as long as adequate demand exists for the service. ARIN reserves the unilateral right to modify or discontinue the service with appropriate advanced notice to participating parties. If you have feedback on this proposed service, ARIN wants to hear from you! Comments regarding this proposed Specified Transfer Listing Service can be submitted through the ARIN Consultation and Suggestion Process, available at: https://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/index.html Discussion on arin-consult at arin.net will close on 7 July 2010, at noon EDT. You can subscribe to the arin-consult mailing list at http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-consult. ARIN welcomes community-wide participation. Please address any process questions to info at arin.net. Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Wed Jun 23 09:37:06 2010 From: info at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:37:06 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Call for Nominee Questions Message-ID: <4C220E02.8080700@arin.net> In October 2010 ARIN will hold elections for open seats on the ARIN Board of Trustees, ARIN Advisory Council, and NRO Number Council. To prepare for these elections we are opening the floor for Community "Ask the Nominee" questions! If you have questions on relevant policy issues and challenges facing ARIN that you'd like candidates to answer, send them to info at arin.net no later than 30 June 2010. Please indicate if your question is directed to candidates for the Board, Advisory Council, NRO Number Council or any combination of the three. The Nomination Committee (NomCom) will determine the final list and phrasing of all questions. The NomCom may solicit additional input from eligible voters on the final set of questions for Board, Advisory Council, and NRO Number Council nominees. ARIN will publish candidate bios and their questionnaire responses when the slate of candidates is announced. The current questionnaires may be viewed at: https://www.arin.net/participate/elections/ac.html#accv https://www.arin.net/participate/elections/board.html#botcv https://www.arin.net/participate/elections/nronumbercouncil.html#nccv The 2010 election schedule is available on the ARIN website at: https://www.arin.net/participate/elections/elec_calendar.html The page includes links to other election-related information. The Call for Nominations will be issued on 12 July. We look forward to your input. If you have any questions concerning the election process please contact us at info at arin.net or submit your question through your web account. Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Thu Jun 24 11:00:25 2010 From: info at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:00:25 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Maintenance Work Scheduled for Saturday, 26 June Message-ID: <4C237309.8080004@arin.net> On Saturday, 26 June 2010 ARIN will be conducting maintenance on back-end systems. The work will take place from 7:00 AM until approximately 9:00 AM EDT. ARIN will experience interruption of two external services while this maintenance is performed. For the duration, any mail sent to Registration Services (hostmaster at arin.net and reassign at arin.net) will be queued, and you will not be able to use your ARIN Online account to submit transactions. Once the systems are back online, queued mail will be processed, and you will regain use of your ARIN Online account. All other publicly available services (WHOIS, IRR, etc.) will not be affected by this outage. Thank you for your patience and cooperation, Mark Kosters Chief Technical Officer American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Thu Jun 24 13:00:42 2010 From: info at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:00:42 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] ARIN's RESTful Whois Directory Service Available 26 June Message-ID: <4C238F3A.1030200@arin.net> ARIN is deploying an improved Whois service called Whois-RWS on 26 June 2010. Included in the deployment are the following services that provide the general public with access to ARIN's registration data. * a RESTful Web Service (RWS) * a NICNAME/WHOIS port 43 service * a user-friendly web site (http://whois.arin.net) When using Whois-RWS you will notice some differences in behavior for certain queries and corresponding result sets on the NICNAME/WHOIS TCP port 43 service. These minor differences are documented at: https://www.arin.net/resources/whoisrws/whois_diff.html ARIN?s Directory Service for registration data has used the NICNAME/WHOIS protocol since its inception. The limitations of the NICNAME/WHOIS protocol are well known and documented in RFC3912. Whois-RWS was created as an alternative to the ARIN Whois and will provide much richer functionality and capability to the community. Whois-RWS can easily be integrated into command line scripts, or it can be used with a web browser, which makes it applicable for programmatic consumption and accessible for interactive use. ARIN will continue to maintain services for the NICNAME/WHOIS protocol on TCP/43. This is achieved by using a proxy service to translate traditional ARIN Whois queries into Whois-RWS queries. However, ARIN recommends use of the RESTful Web Service. Those who choose to use the Whois-RWS Proxy will find it has many features unavailable over the existing Whois service, including: * Support for new query types such as CIDR queries * Better feedback for ambiguous queries * More finely scoped record type queries * Options for NICNAME/WHOIS clients that re-interpret traditional parameters used by ARIN's service. * RESTful URL references, useful for embedding into documents and e-mail * Better grouping of record types and delineation of results Another major benefit is that data from ARIN?s registration database is distributed to the Whois-RWS servers many times throughout the day, versus the once-a-day update of ARIN?s previous Whois service. Changes will be reflected more quickly through Whois-RWS, so query results will be more current than the previous Whois service. ARIN continues to welcome community participation on the Whois-RWS mailing list, and we invite you to subscribe and provide feedback to: http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-whoisrws Regards, Mark Kosters Chief Technical Officer American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Sun Jun 27 07:11:54 2010 From: info at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 07:11:54 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Whois-RWS Release Update Message-ID: <4C2731FA.5060200@arin.net> On 26 June, ARIN rolled out Whois-RWS. Unfortunately, we experienced a very significant increase in traffic after rollout which exceeded our load capacity and caused the new service to degrade to an unacceptable level. To ensure customers could continue to access ARIN's Whois data, we have reverted to the old service which degrades more gracefully under load. We are examining the data gathered on the traffic patterns we experienced and are making the necessary changes to deploy Whois-RWS the near future. We thank you for your patience, and we look forward to making the Whois-RWS service available for community use very soon. Regards, Mark Kosters Chief Technical Officer American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Mon Jun 28 09:35:00 2010 From: info at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:35:00 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Closing Soon: Global IPv6 Deployment Monitoring Survey Message-ID: <4C28A504.903@arin.net> ARIN encourages its community to participate in the 2010 Global IPv6 Deployment Monitoring Survey being conducted by GNKS Consult and TNO and sponsored by the RIPE NCC. The survey is now available at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/IPv6deploymentmonitoring2010 The survey will close on 1 July 2010. All five Regional Internet Registries have committed to soliciting participation in this survey in order to compile the most complete global IPv6 deployment data possible. The survey results will provide a better understanding of current IPv6 deployment, and what still needs to be done to ensure the Internet community is ready for the widespread adoption of IPv6. ARIN/CAIDA performed a similar survey in 2008, and it was repeated in 2009 in the RIPE and APNIC region. The 2010 survey will allow for some comparison of progress, which will be extremely valuable in determining the necessary next steps. The goal is to establish a comprehensive view of present IPv6 penetration and future plans for IPv6 deployment. The survey is composed of 23 questions and can be completed in about 15 minutes. For those without IPv6 allocations or assignments, or who have not yet deployed IPv6, the questions will be fewer in number. Results of the IPv6 Deployment Monitoring Survey will be made public in the Fall. All participants that provide their name and contact information on the survey form will receive the draft survey analysis when available. Please also indicate if you are willing to share additional data with the TNO and GNKS Consult IPv6 Deployment Monitoring team. Any questions concerning the survey itself should be addressed to info at gnksconsult.com. Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Mon Jun 28 11:59:55 2010 From: info at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:59:55 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Reminder: Call for Nominee Questions Message-ID: <4C28C6FB.5010803@arin.net> In October 2010 ARIN will hold elections for open seats on the ARIN Board of Trustees, ARIN Advisory Council, and NRO Number Council. To prepare for these elections we are opening the floor for Community "Ask the Nominee" questions! If you have questions on relevant policy issues and challenges facing ARIN that you'd like candidates to answer, send them to info at arin.net no later than 30 June 2010. Please indicate if your question is directed to candidates for the Board, Advisory Council, NRO Number Council or any combination of the three. The Nomination Committee (NomCom) will determine the final list and phrasing of all questions. The NomCom may solicit additional input from eligible voters on the final set of questions for Board, Advisory Council, and NRO Number Council nominees. ARIN will publish candidate bios and their questionnaire responses when the slate of candidates is announced. The current questionnaires may be viewed at: Advisory Council: * https://www.arin.net/participate/elections/ac.html#accv Board: * https://www.arin.net/participate/elections/board.html#botcv NRO Number Council: * https://www.arin.net/participate/elections/nronumbercouncil.html#nccv The 2010 election schedule is available on the ARIN website at: https://www.arin.net/participate/elections/elec_calendar.html The page includes links to other election-related information. The Call for Nominations will be issued on 12 July. We look forward to your input. If you have any questions concerning the election process please contact us at info at arin.net or submit your question through your web account. Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Tue Jun 29 14:11:48 2010 From: info at arin.net (Member Services) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:11:48 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] New ARIN Online Features Released 26 June 2010 Message-ID: <4C2A3764.80605@arin.net> ARIN is pleased to announce that ARIN Online users can now create API Keys when logged in to their account. An Application Programming Interface Key, or API Key, is a secret code that can be used to identify customers to ARIN Online for securing alternate transactions outside of the regular ARIN Online password framework. At this time, authorized Bulk Whois users can automate the download of the bulk data by using a RESTful HTTP request containing their API Key. In future releases, API Keys will play a major role in securing your template requests. Learn more about the future of API keys at ARIN at: https://www.arin.net/features/api_keys.html Log in and learn more about these ARIN Online enhancements, or create your account at: https://www.arin.net/public/aboutARINonline.xhtml To see what is coming up in ARIN Online, visit: https://www.arin.net/knowledge/roadmap.html Important details on other features in development can be found at: https://www.arin.net/features/ For a preview of the future of templates look at: https://www.arin.net/participate/meetings/reports/ARIN_XXV/PDF/Tuesday/Newton-REST-and-Relax.pdf Please send any questions, comments, or issues to: hostmaster at arin.net. Regards, Mark Kosters Chief Technical Officer American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)