From info at arin.net Tue Jul 1 11:00:01 2014 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 11:00:01 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] ARIN.net and ARIN.com Forward Zones Signed Message-ID: <53B2CCF1.3010004@arin.net> I am happy to inform the community that the arin.net and arin.com zones have been officially signed as part of our commitment to Domain Name System Security (DNSSEC) throughout the ARIN region and global Internet community. ARIN has been signing the reverse /8 zones it manages for over the past five years. ARIN continues to encourage all members of the Internet community to implement DNSSEC for their own forward and reverse zones to help secure the Domain Name System as the Internet continues to grow and evolve. For more information about DNS and how you can utilize ARIN's DNSSEC tools to secure your network, visit: https://www.arin.net/resources/dnssec/index.html Regards, Mark Kosters Chief Technology Officer American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Thu Jul 3 11:04:31 2014 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 11:04:31 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Last Call To Serve on NomCom: Volunteer by 5pm EDT Today In-Reply-To: <53A440A1.3050703@arin.net> References: <53A440A1.3050703@arin.net> Message-ID: <53B570FF.60804@arin.net> ARIN needs five (5) General Members in good standing to serve on the 2014 ARIN Nomination Committee (NomCom). This total may include up to two (2) serving Advisory Council members. Please note that candidates for this year's Board of Trustees and Advisory Council elections cannot sit on the NomCom. Want to help select this year's slate of candidates? Submit your name, email address, ARIN member organization name, and ORG ID to info at arin.net before 5:00 PM EDT today Thursday, 3 July 2014. Already appointed NomCom Members Aaron Hughes (NomCom Chair) and Paul Andersen shall select and appoint the five additional individual representatives from the pool of volunteers. If selected you are required to sign and return a Non-Disclosure Agreement within three business days of being notified of your selection. You can view this NDA at: https://www.arin.net/participate/elections/nomcom_nda.pdf The NomCom is 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. The responsibilities of the Committee are explained in the Bylaws at: https://www.arin.net/about_us/corp_docs/bylaws.html You can learn more by reading the links below. NomCom Charter: https://www.arin.net/about_us/committeecharters.html#nomcom Nomination Committee FAQ: https://www.arin.net/participate/elections/nomcom_faqs.html Nomination and Election Procedures: https://www.arin.net/participate/elections/board.html#nomcom Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From info at arin.net Mon Jul 7 11:06:15 2014 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 11:06:15 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Last Chance to Submit Suggestions for 2014 Nominee Questionnaires Message-ID: <53BAB767.10302@arin.net> In October 2014 ARIN will hold elections for open seats on the ARIN Board of Trustees, ARIN Advisory Council, and make one appointment to the NRO Number Council (also known as the ASO Address Council). 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 today 7 July 2014. 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. ARIN will publish candidate bios and their questionnaire responses when the slate of candidates is announced. Last year's nominee questions 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 We look forward to your participation and input. Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Thu Jul 10 10:59:28 2014 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:59:28 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] ARIN Online Maintenance Scheduled for Sunday Message-ID: <53BEAA50.4070502@arin.net> ARIN Online will undergo maintenance from 7:00 AM until approximately 3:00 PM ET on Sunday, 13 July in order to deploy new functionality. During this time, ARIN Online will be inaccessible, RESTful Provisioning transactions will be rejected, and any mail sent to ARIN Registration Services will be queued and not immediately acknowledged. Once maintenance has been completed, ARIN Online will be accessible and queued mail will be processed. Any RESTful calls sent during the outage will not be queued, and must be resubmitted after the maintenance period. All other ARIN publicly available services (Whois/Whois-RWS, IRR, RPKI Repository Services, etc) will be available during this outage, but may experience degraded responses. Thank you for your patience and cooperation. Regards, Mark Kosters Chief Technology Officer American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Sun Jul 13 13:46:49 2014 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 13:46:49 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] New Features Added to ARIN Online Message-ID: <53C2C609.80400@arin.net> ARIN is pleased to present the latest version of ARIN Online, including many improvements, new features, and enhancements. Full release notes are included below this message. All ARIN systems have been restored and are now operating normally. We thank you for your patience. Please send any questions, comments, or issues to hostmaster at arin.net. Regards, Mark Kosters Chief Technology Officer American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) Release Notes: - ARIN Online users may now view their organization's active RSA/LRSA version and signing date by selecting their organization on the ORGANIZATION DATA page. - Route Origin Authorizations (ROAs) requested within ARIN's Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) may now use AS0 as their origin Autonomous System (AS). - The ARIN Suggestion form now includes a field indicating whether the author would like to be listed publicly or kept anonymous. -Whois Inaccuracies may be reported via a web form. Links to this form have been placed on the right side of all Whois-RWS pages, as well as within the output for all Whois command line and port 43 queries. Whois Inaccuracy Whois Inaccuracy Reporting details may be seen on the ARIN Services Page at: https://www.arin.net/resources/services/index.html#whoisinaccuracy - Shared Tickets: For tickets that affect multiple Point of Contact records (POCs) for an Org ID, those tickets and ticket correspondence are now accessible to all Admin and Tech Points of Contact (POCs) linked to that Org ID. Before receiving correspondence notifications for about tickets created by others, Admin and Tech POCs must add themselves as watchers using the button on each ticket's Ticket Information page within the TRACK TICKETS page. - ARIN Online users may now search for whole or partial ticket numbers by selecting the SEARCH TICKETS button within the TRACK TICKETS page. - When an approved IP address or Autonomous System Number (ASN) request ticket is inactive and nearing automatic closure, a notification will be sent to all ARIN Online users associated with Admin or Tech POCS linked to the appropriate Org ID. From info at arin.net Tue Jul 15 14:02:34 2014 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 14:02:34 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Tune in to IGF-USA 2014 Tomorrow Message-ID: <53C56CBA.9060901@arin.net> Internet Governance Forum USA (IGF-USA) 2014 is a multistakeholder U.S. forum designed to engage civil society, government, technologists, research scientists, industry, and academia, and help move policy forward by creating partnerships, coalitions and dialogues that demonstrate best practices. Tomorrow, 16 July, thought leaders from across the U.S. Internet community will meet at George Washington University for this full-day event, from 8:30 AM to 7:00 PM EDT. We strongly encourage you to tune in to the webcast to learn more about current Internet Governance issues, including those surrounding the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions oversight transition and Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) accountability. View the webcast at: http://www.isoc-dc.org/isoc-dc-tv/ Agenda topics include: * Human Rights in the Internet Governance Debate * Net Neutrality Around the World * The Evolution of the Internet Governance Ecosystem * Big Data, The Internet of Things, Privacy and Trust Don't miss out on your chance to take part in this regional preparatory event as the ramp-up toward the Ninth Annual IGF meeting in Istanbul, Turkey continues. Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Thu Jul 17 09:33:12 2014 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 09:33:12 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] IANA Functions Stewardship Transition Coordination Group Meeting Webcast LIVE TODAY Message-ID: <53C7D098.6060904@arin.net> Yesterday ICANN announced that the first meeting of the IANA Functions Stewardship Transition Coordination Group meeting is taking place in London 17-18 July. The proceedings are being webcast to allow the global multistakeholder community to follow the discussion. https://icann.adobeconnect.com/coordinationgroup/ The full text of the announcement is provided below. We hope you will take the time to tune in for these critical discussions. Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) *** https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-07-16-en IANA Functions Stewardship Transition Updates On 14 March 2014, the NTIA announced its intention to transition its stewardship role of IANA functions, and called upon ICANN to launch and facilitate a process with the community to derive a proposal to transition the IANA functions to the global multistakeholder community, meeting the criteria set out by the NTIA. Following community dialogue, the process for developing a proposal for this transition was posted on 6 June 2014. As a part of this process, a Coordination Group will be responsible for preparing a transitional proposal respective of the differing needs of the various affected parties of the IANA functions. See here for a full list of the Coordination Group Representatives. https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/coordination-group-2014-06-17-en The first face-to-face meeting of the Coordination Group will take place in London from 08:00-17:00 UTC on 17-18 July at the Hilton London Metropole Hotel. The global multistakeholder community will be able to follow the Coordination Group's first meeting through the Virtual Meeting Room and through audio translations into these languages: * English * French * Spanish * Chinese * Russian * Arabic * Portuguese In addition, the community is encouraged to join the conversation through use of the online discussion forum or ICANN's dedicated IANA Transition mailing list to discuss the transition process. For more information about the Coordination Group and the IANA Function's Stewardship Transition, please visit the NTIA IANA Functions' Stewardship Transition microsite. https://www.icann.org/stewardship *** From info at arin.net Mon Jul 21 11:00:47 2014 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 11:00:47 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Call for Nominations: ARIN Board of Trustees and Advisory Council Message-ID: <53CD2B1F.10705@arin.net> General Members in Good Standing are invited to nominate candidates for two seats on the Board of Trustees and seven seats on the Advisory Council. You can submit a nomination by selecting ?nominate? at: https://www.arin.net/participate/elections/index.html Nomination details are included below. If you have questions, please contact us at info at arin.net. Board members Timothy Denton and Bill Woodcock will conclude their current three-year terms on 31 December 2014. Advisory Council representatives Dan Alexander, Kevin Blumberg, Bill Darte, David Farmer, and John Sweeting will conclude their current three-year terms on 31 December 2014. Advisory Council member Andrew Dul will also conclude his one-year Advisory Council appointment, creating an additional seat for a one-year term. There is another one-year term available to complete the term for the seat vacated by former Advisory Council Member Stacy Hughes. New Board and Advisory Council terms begin 1 January 2015. ARIN Board and Advisory Council incumbents may be re-elected for consecutive terms. The Board of Trustees and Advisory Council elections have a Nomination Committee (NomCom) that is responsible for identifying, recruiting, and certifying a properly selected slate of candidates to be placed in nomination before the membership for election. This year's NomCom members are Board of Trustee members Aaron Hughes (NomCom Chair) and Paul Andersen and general member volunteers John Brown, Byron Holland, Stephen Middleton, Tina Morris, and John Springer. Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) Nomination Details 1. You must be a Trustee or an ARIN General Member in Good Standing to make nominations. Nominees do not need to be ARIN members. Self-nominations from General Members in Good Standing are permitted. For nomination instructions, visit: https://www.arin.net/participate/elections/instructions.html#nominate 2. All nominees must confirm that they qualify to serve and do not violate the Nomination and Appointment Conflict of Interest List at: https://www.arin.net/participate/elections/conflicts.html 3. Nominations must be received by 5:00 PM ET on Tuesday, 20 August 2014. In accordance with ARIN's Bylaws, each Trustee or General Member in Good Standing may make up to three nominations for each open seat. 4. Each nominee must submit the nominee questionnaire by 5:00 PM ET on Monday 25 August. The 2014 questionnaires are incoming soon and will be available at: https://www.arin.net/participate/elections/elec_procedures.html#cv 5. ARIN will contact all nominees via email and/or telephone to verify that they are willing and able to fulfill a three-year term. If ARIN cannot reach the nominee, the nomination will be rejected. 6. You may view the initial requirements and responsibilities of Board Members at: https://www.arin.net/about_us/bot_requirements.html The Advisory Council requirements and responsibilities are available at: https://www.arin.net/about_us/ac_requirements.html From info at arin.net Mon Jul 21 11:10:58 2014 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 11:10:58 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Call for Nominations: NRO NC ARIN Region Message-ID: <53CD2D82.8090605@arin.net> You are invited to nominate candidates from the ARIN region to fill one seat on the Number Resource Organization Number Council (NRO NC) that will become vacant when Ron da Silva's term expires on 31 December 2014. Candidates must be willing to serve a three-year term beginning 1 January 2015. Incumbents may be nominated for consecutive terms. Information about the NRO NC, also known as the Address Supporting Organization Address Council, and who else is currently serving can be found at: https://aso.icann.org/ You can make your nomination by clicking "nominate" at: https://www.arin.net/participate/elections/index.html Every three years, the Board of Trustees appoints a representative to the NRO NC from the ARIN region. This year is an appointment year so after the nomination period closes, the ARIN Board votes via secret ballot to appoint a representative. Nomination details are included below. If you have questions, please contact us at info at arin.net . Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) _Nomination Details_ 1. Any individual, regardless of ARIN membership status, may self-nominate or nominate one or more candidates for any open NRO Number Council position. You can read instructions on how to make nominations at: https://www.arin.net/participate/elections/instructions.html#nominate 2. Any individual residing within the ARIN region may be nominated, with the exception of Regional Internet Registry staff members. View the countries in the ARIN service region here at: https://www.arin.net/knowledge/rirs/ARINcountries.html 3. All nominees must confirm that they qualify to serve and do not violate the Nomination and Appointment Conflict of Interest List at: https://www.arin.net/participate/elections/conflicts.html 4. Nominations must be received by 5:00 PM ET on Tuesday, 20 August 2014. 5. Each nominee must submit the nominee questionnaire by 5:00 PM ET on Monday, 25 August 2014. Questionnaires are available for review at: https://www.arin.net/participate/elections/nronumbercouncil.html#nccv 6. ARIN will contact all nominees via email and/or telephone to verify that they are willing and able to fulfill a three-year term. If ARIN cannot reach the nominee, the nomination will be rejected. 7. You may view the Requirements and Responsibilities of NRO NC Members at: https://www.arin.net/about_us/nronc_requirements.html Responsibilities of NRO NC representatives are further outlined in the ASO Memorandum of Understanding at: http://archive.icann.org/en/aso/aso-mou-29oct04.htm 8. Further information on the NRO NC is available on the ASO website at: http://aso.icann.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From info at arin.net Mon Jul 28 12:38:44 2014 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 12:38:44 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Understanding the IANA Stewardship Functions Transition Process Message-ID: <53D67C94.9060500@arin.net> ARIN believes that globalization of the IANA oversight is critical in developing a true multistakeholder model of Internet governance. Since the National Telecommunication and Information Administration (NTIA) announced its intention to transition stewardship of the IANA functions to the global multistakeholder community, we have been publishing updates and other information as it becomes available. We also have started an information page: http://teamarin.net/education/internet-governance/iana-globalization/ As part of our commitment to the global community and the transition process, ARIN is also working to develop the dialog in our community about this important issue. We are currently collecting questions to make sure we address your concerns about the transition process. Please send your questions to info at arin.net with the Subject ?IANA Functions Transition?, by 11 August 2014. We will be using your input to help shape discussion on this issue at ARIN 34 and in other educational outreach and engagement efforts. Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Mon Jul 28 17:00:31 2014 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 17:00:31 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] ARIN Online Maintenance Scheduled for Wednesday Night Message-ID: <53D6B9EF.5090204@arin.net> ARIN Online will undergo maintenance from 9:00 PM until approximately 11:59 PM EDT on Wednesday, 30 July. During this time, ARIN Online will be inaccessible, RESTful Provisioning transactions will be rejected, and any mail sent to ARIN Registration Services will be queued and not immediately acknowledged. Once maintenance has been completed, ARIN Online will be accessible and queued mail will be processed. Any RESTful calls sent during the outage will not be queued, and must be resubmitted after the maintenance period. All other ARIN publicly available services (Whois/Whois-RWS, IRR, RPKI Repository Services, etc) will be available during this outage. Thank you for your patience and cooperation. Regards, Mark Kosters Chief Technology Officer American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Tue Jul 29 10:42:42 2014 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 10:42:42 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] On the Road To Madison and Winnipeg Message-ID: <53D7B2E2.7090804@arin.net> We are pleased to invite you to join us at: ARIN the Road: Madison, Wisconsin Tuesday, 9 September 2014 8:30 AM ? 5:00 PM; Happy Hour: 5:00 PM ? 6:30 PM CDT Register at: https://www.arin.net/madison This event is hosted by the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) and the North American Network Operators Group (NANOG). The agenda includes talks and tutorials on Network Security, IPv6, BGP, the mission and role of ARIN, IPv4 Depletion, Internet security, and more. Lunch will be provided. ARIN the Road: Winnipeg, Manitoba Thursday, 11 September 2014 9:30 AM ? 4:30 PM, Beers and Peers 4:30 - 6:00 PM CDT Register at: https://www.arin.net/winnipeg The agenda for this event includes sessions on ARIN services, the status of IPv6 adoption, current ARIN policy developments, ARIN technical services, and more. Lunch will be provided by Epic Data Center and at the end of the day join us for Beers and Peers, sponsored by CIRA. Additional Information About Both Events: These free events will feature educational sessions, great discussions, and networking opportunities. And we will have drawings at the end of the day for two $100 Amazon gift cards for participants that complete a short survey about the program. Don't wait until it's too late to register! We expect a good turnout and space is limited, so sign up as soon as you know for certain you can attend. Joining us "on the road" is a great first step to learn how you can take the wheel and steer the future of the Internet. If you know other individuals whom you feel may benefit from attending these events, please extend this invitation to them as well. Feel free to contact us at info at arin.net if you have any questions. Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Tue Jul 29 14:28:27 2014 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 14:28:27 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Update to the ARIN Consultation and Suggestion Process Message-ID: <53D7E7CB.6040201@arin.net> We have reviewed and revised the ARIN Consultation and Suggestion Process (ACSP) to add transparency and clarity to the administration of this community feedback mechanism. Consultations and Suggestions now require the inclusion of a rationale to establish the intended benefit to the greater ARIN community. We have also clarified the handling of suggestions that ARIN has identified for action, but cannot implement immediately. We will continue to report ACSP progress at Public Policy Meetings and aggressively work to improve ARIN services using input provided by the community through this suggestions process and other feedback mechanisms. You can view the updated Consultation and Suggestion Process at: https://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/acsp.html Regards, Richard Jimmerson Chief Information Officer American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Wed Jul 30 11:00:16 2014 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 11:00:16 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] =?windows-1252?q?Call_for_Nominations_=96_Reminde?= =?windows-1252?q?r?= Message-ID: <53D90880.8020502@arin.net> Nominations close on 20 August 2014 for candidates for the upcoming ARIN election to fill two seats on the ARIN Board of Trustees and seven seats on the Advisory Council (AC). We are also seeking nominations for one seat on the Number Resource Organization Number Council (NRO NC) which will be appointed by the Board of Trustees. Elections will be held in October, and the winning candidates will be seated on 31 December 2014. Who can submit a nomination? You must be a Trustee or an ARIN General Member in Good Standing to make nominations for the Board and Advisory Council. However, those nominated do not need to be ARIN members. Self-nominations from General Members in Good Standing are permitted. Any individual, regardless of ARIN membership status, may self-nominate or nominate one or more candidates for any open NRO NC position. For complete details on the nomination process, visit the ARIN Election System Instructions page at: https://www.arin.net/participate/elections/instructions.html#nominate Ready to submit a nomination? Go to: https://www.arin.net/public/election/ All nominations for the Board and AC elections will be reviewed by the Nomination Committee (NomCom). For more NomCom information, see the NomCom Charter at: https://www.arin.net/about_us/committeecharters.html#nomcom Please direct any questions to info at arin.net. Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Wed Jul 30 12:17:58 2014 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:17:58 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] New ARIN Remittance Address Message-ID: <53D91AB6.3020203@arin.net> Please update you address book! Effective 1 August 2014, ARIN will have a new remittance address for payments by mail: American Registry for Internet Numbers P.O. Box 759477 Baltimore, MD 21275-9477 ARIN's mailing address for all other items remains the same. If you have questions, please contact the billing help desk at +1.703.227.9886 or email billing at arin.net. Regards, Val Winkelman Director of Financial Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Wed Jul 30 17:48:02 2014 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 17:48:02 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] ARIN Online Maintenance Cancelled Message-ID: <53D96812.3050405@arin.net> The ARIN Online maintenance work scheduled for Wednesday, 30 July has been successfully completed without requiring an outage. As such, Wednesday's scheduled ARIN Online outage has been cancelled. All ARIN systems are now operating normally. We thank you for your patience. Please send any questions, comments, or issues to hostmaster at arin.net. Regards, Mark Kosters Chief Technical Officer American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)