From info at arin.net Mon Mar 2 06:22:57 2015 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 06:22:57 -0500 Subject: [arin-announce] Delayed Opening Today - Online Services Remain Open Message-ID: <54F44811.6000003@arin.net> Due to inclement weather in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, staff will have a delayed arrival of two hours into ARIN's office today. The main office and Registration Services Help Desk will open at 9:00 AM ET. ARIN's online services are operating normally, though responses or the processing of resource requests may be slightly delayed. Regards, Nate Davis Chief Operating Officer American Registry for Internet Numbers From info at arin.net Tue Mar 3 12:37:29 2015 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 12:37:29 -0500 Subject: [arin-announce] IANA Issues /13 to ARIN Message-ID: <54F5F159.1030308@arin.net> On 2 March 2015 ARIN received a /13 of IPv4 address space from IANA in accordance with the Global Policy for Post Exhaustion IPv4 Allocation Mechanisms by the IANA. This policy was immediately activated when the LACNIC IPv4 free pool dropped below one /9 of IPv4 address space. The full text of the policy is available at: https://www.icann.org/en/resources/policy/global-addressing/allocation-ipv4-post-exhaustion As a result of this allocation, the ARIN IPv4 free pool will be slightly increased this week. This change does not impact the IPv4 Countdown Plan, and we will continue to follow Phase 4 processing procedures. We encourage you to visit the IPv4 Countdown Phase Four page at: https://www.arin.net/resources/request/countdown_phase4.html ARIN will add this new /13 (45.72.0.0 - 45.79.255.255) to its available inventory this week and will begin issuing from this block in the near future. For informational purposes, a list of ARIN's currently administered IP address blocks can be found at: https://www.arin.net/knowledge/ip_blocks.html Please contact hostmaster at arin.net or our Help Desk +1.703.227.0660 if you have any questions. Regards, Richard Jimmerson Chief Information Officer American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Tue Mar 3 14:17:16 2015 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 14:17:16 -0500 Subject: [arin-announce] Whois Update Delays Possible Between 2:15 and 3:00 PM Today Message-ID: <54F608BC.7060801@arin.net> ARIN will be performing maintenance that may impact Whois update times between 2:15 and 3:00 PM today. Note that Whois service will not be interrupted. This maintenance will not impact any other ARIN publicly-available services. Thank you for your patience and cooperation. Regards, Mark Kosters Chief Technology Officer American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Wed Mar 4 09:30:34 2015 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 09:30:34 -0500 Subject: [arin-announce] POC Verification Statistics Now Available Message-ID: <54F7170A.6040707@arin.net> In addition to the extensive statistical reports maintained on https://www.arin.net/knowledge/statistics/index.html, ARIN is pleased to announce the availability of Point of Contact record (POC) verification statistics. These statistics include the following data points: > Number of direct POCs emailed during prior month > Number of indirect POCs emailed during prior month > Number of direct POCs emailed year-to-date > Number of indirect POCs emailed year-to-date > Number of invalid direct POCs as of report generation date (first day of the month) > Number of invalid indirect POCs as of report generation date ARIN is committed to serving its community members and maintaining the highest level of responsibility and transparency. We encourage you to utilize ARIN's statistical reports and to participate in ARIN and its Policy Development Process as we continue to strive to serve your needs. Regards, Richard Jimmerson Chief Information Officer American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Thu Mar 5 05:41:43 2015 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 05:41:43 -0500 Subject: [arin-announce] =?iso-8859-1?q?ARIN=27s_Physical_Office_Closed_To?= =?iso-8859-1?q?day_=AD-_Business_Services_Remain_Open?= Message-ID: <54F832E7.8020907@arin.net> ARIN's physical office is closed today due to inclement weather in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. However, ARIN staff is supporting our services remotely, including the Billing and Hostmaster Help Desks. Please note that since staff is not physically in the office, faxes and/or payments will be received when staff return to the office. All online services are available. Regards, Nate Davis Chief Operating Officer American Registry for Internet Numbers From info at arin.net Fri Mar 6 06:11:48 2015 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 06:11:48 -0500 Subject: [arin-announce] =?windows-1252?q?Delayed_Opening_Today_=97_Online?= =?windows-1252?q?_Services_Remain_Open?= Message-ID: <54F98B74.20307@arin.net> Due to inclement weather in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, staff will have a delayed arrival of two hours into ARIN's office today. The main office and Registration Services Help Desk will open at 9:00 AM ET. ARIN's online services are operating normally, though responses or the processing of resource requests may be slightly delayed. Regards, Nate Davis Chief Operating Officer American Registry for Internet Numbers From info at arin.net Wed Mar 11 11:37:55 2015 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:37:55 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Temporary ARIN Online Outage Today Message-ID: <55006153.2090307@arin.net> At 12:15PM EDT, we are going to restart one of our application servers to mitigate an instability issue. This will cause a temporary disruption of Reg-RWS and ARIN Online. These services will be back online at approximately 12:20 PM EDT. All other ARIN publicly available services (Whois, 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 Mar 17 11:00:39 2015 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:00:39 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] ARIN 35 Hotel Discount Expires This Week! Message-ID: <55084197.3080507@arin.net> ARIN 35 will be here soon, so make your travel arrangements while there is still time to get in on the action! ARIN 35 will take place from 12-15 April in San Francisco. You don't want to miss this important Internet community meeting! The deadline for ARIN attendees to take advantage of the discounted hotel rate of $259 (USD + taxes) at the JW Marriott San Francisco Union Square is 20 March. We strongly encourage you to book your travel and register right now by visiting https://www.arin.net/ARIN35. Hotel details and a booking link are available on our hotel and travel page. You'll find that coming to an ARIN Public Policy and Members Meeting is well worth your time. Come early and learn "How to Certify Your ARIN Resources with RPKI" and what to expect from "Life after IPv4 Depletion" during our Sunday tutorials. During the meeting, get the latest on the IANA Stewardship Transition process while taking an active role in shaping the policies that affect every individual and organization that has an interest in Internet number resources in the ARIN region. The policy discussions will include: * Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2014-1: Out of Region Use * Draft Policy ARIN-2014-6: Remove Operational Reverse DNS Text * Draft Policy ARIN-2014-14: Needs Attestation for some IPv4 Transfers * Draft Policy ARIN-2014-21: Modification to CI Pool Size per Section 4.4 * Draft Policy ARIN-2014-22: Removal of Minimum in Section 4.10 All draft policy text is available at: https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/ We will also be discussing a new proposal, ARIN-prop-215 Modification to Criteria for IPv6 Initial End-User Assignments, text available at: https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/ARIN_prop_215_orig.html If you can't find the answers to your questions online, feel free to contact us at info at arin.net and we'll be happy to help. Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Tue Mar 17 13:30:39 2015 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 13:30:39 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Community Consultation on IRR Route Validation Message-ID: <550864BF.2080809@arin.net> The following suggestions submitted via the ARIN Consultation and Suggestion Process (ACSP) are related to the topic of validation between an Internet Routing Registry (IRR) and the ARIN registry database. * 2015.3: Tie Route Objects in IRR to Netblocks of RIR Database * 2014.30: Reflect Returns in IRR Data * 2008.14: Construct Validated IRR Data These suggestions may be found at: https://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/index.html In addition to these open suggestions, ARIN has noted recent increased feedback from customers on this topic. This feedback includes direct communications with ARIN customers on the topic and open discussions by operator groups. ARIN is opening this community consultation to obtain feedback on the following questions: * Should ARIN begin a new project to enable IRR route object validation to the ARIN registry database? * If this consultation results in support for moving forward in this area of work, it will be taken under advisement by the ARIN Board of Trustees for consideration as a new area of priority by the ARIN organization. If approved, ARIN staff would participate in community-driven initiatives in this area, and using information gathered from these initiatives and this consultation, produce a specific proposal to move forward. * If yes, should this effort be coordinated with other RIRs to help facilitate cross-registry authentication? * If yes, should this effort also support third party IRR route object authentication? Please provide comments to arin-consult at arin.net. You can subscribe to this mailing list at: http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-consult. This consultation will remain open through 5:00 PM EDT on Friday, 16 April 2015. For Background and Consideration: ARIN's current IRR offering is based on an old version of RIPE codebase supplemented by custom scripts written by ARIN to work with our systems. This older codebase is no longer supported by RIPE NCC, as they moved to a new codebase several years ago. The current ARIN IRR does not offer route object validation of any sort. If ARIN staff were to enable IRR route object validation against the ARIN registry database, it would likely require abandoning the current ARIN IRR and moving to a completely new codebase. Creating a new ARIN IRR with route object validation and solid synchronization with the ARIN registry database would require a significant resource effort by ARIN. It should be noted that an ARIN-only IRR project would not provide route object validation across RIR registry databases, and there appears to be a strong desire for cross-registry authentication. The idea of enabling third party IRR route object authentication has also been raised. This would allow non-RIR operated IRRs to conduct route object authentication with the RIR registry database If you have any questions, please contact us at info at arin.net. Regards, John Curran President and CEO American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Mon Mar 23 11:28:22 2015 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 11:28:22 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] 2015 ICANN BOARD OF DIRECTORS ELECTION Message-ID: <55103116.7040400@arin.net> This message is shared on behalf of the Number Resource Organization (NRO). We encourage the ARIN community to submit statements of support for the ICANN Board candidates. *** Consistent with the ASO Memorandum of Understanding and ICANN Bylaws, the Address Supporting Organization Address Council (ASO AC) is responsible for the appointment of a representative to serve on Seat Number 9 of the ICANN Board. The ASO AC is pleased to announce the following six candidates for its upcoming appointment. In accordance with the ASO AC election procedures, a comment period is now open. A biography is available and supporting comment facilities for each candidate may be found in the link below: https://aso.icann.org/aso-icann/icann-board-elections/2015-elections/ * Anthony Harris * Khaled Koubaa * Martin J. Levy * Raimundo Beca * Ron da Silva * Timothy Denton The comment period will close at 23:59 UTC on 31 March 2015. The ASO AC election procedures are found in Section 7 of the ASO Operating Procedures and are available on the ASO website at: https://aso.icann.org/documents/operational-documents/operating-procedures-aso-ac/ The time frame for the selection process is as follows: ? Nomination Phase ? 24 October 2014 to 31 December 2014 (CLOSED NOW) ? Comment Phase ? 1 January 2015 to 31 March 2015 ? Interview Phase ? 1 February 2015 to 31 March 2015 ? Selection Process ? 1 April 2015 to 17 April 2015 ? Due Diligence Review ? 18 April 2015 to 31 May 2015 ? Announcement ? no later than 1 June 2015 All phases will conclude at 23:59 UTC on the date specified. *** Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Tue Mar 24 14:02:28 2015 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 14:02:28 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] RFP for West Coast Co-location Services Message-ID: <5511A6B4.6040804@arin.net> The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) is seeking proposals for Internet Co-location providers for hosting services for ARIN equipment and applications used in the operation of ARIN's public-facing Internet services. Many of the services provided by ARIN are important parts of the Internet infrastructure. ARIN is looking for sites that are situated on the west coast of the United States or Canada. The vendor must provide or allow: * 40 rack units of space for ARIN equipment. * Access to transit providers of native IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity. * Access to a peering fabric for peering with other networks. * Environmental and security infrastructure at their facility. * 24x7x365 NOC for problem resolution. All contractual terms and conditions related to the work performed, nondisclosure of information, or liability issues must be detailed. ARIN will require that the vendor performing this service sign a nondisclosure agreement due to the proprietary nature of the information ARIN retains for its subscribers. Proposals must be submitted before 15 April 2015 for consideration, and must include a statement of work, full pricing details, and references. We anticipate vendor selection by 15 May with deployment no later than 60 days after the contract is awarded. Full text of the RFP is available at: http://www.arin.net/about_us/contracts/201503_west_coast.pdf Send proposals to west-coast-rfp at arin.net or by mail to: ARIN 3635 Concorde Parkway, Suite 200 Chantilly, VA. 20151 Technical questions may be directed to: Matt Rowley, ARIN Infrastructure Manager matt at arin.net ARIN is operated as a nonprofit 501(c)(6) corporation which is chartered for educational, charitable, and scientific purposes. It is a membership organization with an official IRS designation as a business league. From info at arin.net Thu Mar 26 11:01:03 2015 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 11:01:03 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] ARIN 35 Fellowship Recipients Message-ID: <55141F2F.2000404@arin.net> ARIN is pleased to announce the ARIN Meeting Fellowship Program recipients for ARIN 35 in San Francisco, California. * Canada: Jon Aitchison, Government of Canada; Ontario * Canada: Andrew Trudgeon, Scandia ISP Internet; Ontario * USA: Stephen Ives, Matanuska Telephone; Alaska * USA: Michael Schloh, MSvB Recherche; California * Caribbean: Andre Graham, University College of the Caribbean; Jamaica Please join us in welcoming Jon, Andrew, Stephen, Michael, and Andre to ARIN 35 in San Francisco, 12-15 April 2015. If you haven't registered, we encourage you to do it today! https://www.arin.net/ARIN35 ARIN Fellows receive: * Round-trip airfare to the meeting * Hotel accommodations at the venue hotel * A stipend to cover meals and incidental travel expenses Want to be one of our fellows for ARIN 36 in October 2015 in Montreal? Applications are being accepted now, so if you or someone you know is interested, full details about ARIN Meetings Fellowship Program and a link to the application are available at: https://www.arin.net/participate/meetings/fellowship.html Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From info at arin.net Thu Mar 26 13:00:13 2015 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 13:00:13 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Independent Survey on Trust in the RIRs Message-ID: <55143B1D.3050903@arin.net> The University of Malta's Program in Internet governance is conducting research on Trust in Internet governance. The ARIN community is invited to complete a short, 15-minute survey on Trust in RIRs. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/InRirW3Trust23 The independent (non-RIR initiated) survey was launched on 20 March 2015 and it ends on 30 March 2015. Participants are given an absolute assurance of individual confidentiality. To learn more about the purpose of this research effort, please read the survey author's blog post at APNIC: http://blog.apnic.net/2015/03/26/research-project-by-university-of-malta/ Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Mon Mar 30 15:09:31 2015 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 15:09:31 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] 2014 ARIN Annual Report Now Available Message-ID: <55199F6B.4050104@arin.net> The 2014 ARIN Annual Report is now available for download at: https://www.arin.net/about_us/corp_docs/annual_rprt.html The report includes: > An overview of ARIN's mission, services, structure, and services > Updates from ARIN's President & Chief Executive Officer and Board of Trustees Chairman > A summary of 2014 accomplishments from ARIN's Chief Operations Officer > ARIN's Service Level Commitment report > Department highlights > An Internet Governance participation report > A chronological recap of 2014 Public Policy Consultations (PPCs), Public Policy & Members Meetings (PPMs), and other public outreach events > An overview of ARIN's Policy Development Process (PDP) > Number Resource Policy Manual (NRPM) changes in 2014 > Board of Trustees, Advisory Council (AC) and NRO Number Council (NRO NC) activity reports > Internet number resource statistics, for 2014 and historical activity The 2014 Annual Report will be updated to include the 2014 Auditor's Report once it becomes available. ARIN publishes annual reports to document the operations and activities of the organization for the community. Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)