From info at arin.net Fri Mar 2 15:16:07 2018 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 15:16:07 -0500 Subject: [arin-announce] IANA Issues /21 to ARIN, 7 Waiting List Requests Fulfilled Message-ID: <052263a2-8564-3b3f-e3f5-91e0900686b3@arin.net> On 1 March 2018, ARIN received a total of /21 of IPv4 address space (one /23 block and six /24 blocks) from the IANA in accordance with the Global Policy for Post Exhaustion IPv4 Allocation Mechanisms by the IANA. The full text of that policy is available at: https://www.icann.org/en/resources/policy/global-addressing/allocation-ipv4-post-exhaustion As a result of this distribution from the IANA, ARIN was able to fulfill 7 requests on the Waiting List for Unmet Requests. The organizations associated with these requests have received notice that they are approved to receive IPv4 address space as a result. The ARIN IPv4 Waiting List page will reflect these changes by tomorrow morning. The ARIN IPv4 Waiting List may be found at: https://www.arin.net/resources/request/waiting_list.html#report Please contact hostmaster at arin.net or our Help Desk +1.703.227.0660 if you have any questions. Regards, John Sweeting Senior Director, Registration Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Wed Mar 7 09:46:46 2018 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 09:46:46 -0500 Subject: [arin-announce] ARIN 41 Hotel Discount Expires Soon Message-ID: <5A9FFB56.6000201@arin.net> ARIN 41 will be here soon, so make your travel arrangements while there is still time to get in on the action! ARIN 41 will take place 15-18 April at the Hilton Miami Downtown in Miami, Florida. You won't want to miss this important Internet community meeting where you?ll have the opportunity to engage in policy discussions, network with colleagues, learn more about ARIN services and operations, and attend workshops and tutorials. The deadline for ARIN attendees to take advantage of the discounted hotel rate of $219 USD at the Hilton Miami Downtown is 23 March. We strongly encourage you to book your travel and register right now by visiting https://www.arin.net/ARIN41 Hotel details and a booking link are available on our Hotel and Travel page. Because of the limited number of rooms available, it is important that you book your room as soon as possible. Space will be an issue, so don?t delay! If you can't find the answers to your questions online, feel free to contact us at meetings at arin.net and we'll be happy to help. We hope to see you in Miami! Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Thu Mar 15 12:17:10 2018 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 12:17:10 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] ARIN 41 Fellowship Recipients Announced Message-ID: <5AAA9C86.30807@arin.net> ARIN is pleased to announce the following ARIN Fellowship Program recipients for ARIN 41 in Miami, Florida: Canada -Blaise Arbouet, Haiti Cyber Con -Jaymon Lefebvre, Wild Rose School Division -Peter Menzies, Corinthian College -Orin Roberts, Bell Canada USA -Roger Caruth, Independent Researcher -Martin Dimas, Kit Carson Electric Cooperative, Inc. -Soledad Roybal, Freelance Tech Policy Consultant -Charles Thomas, Omnipoint Technology, Inc. Caribbean -Marcellus Constance, National Telecommunications Regulatory Commission -Gerry George, DigiSolv, Inc. -Amicia Mussenden, Government of St. Kitts and Nevis, Department of Technology -Cathrona Samuel, Antigua Public Utilities Authority Outlying Area -Paola Perez, ISOC Venezuela / LACNIC ARIN Fellows receive: -Round-trip, economy class airfare to the meeting -Hotel accommodations at the venue hotel -A small stipend to assist with travel incidentals and meals -An ARIN Advisory Council or seasoned community member mentor -Optionally: Registration and hotel accommodations for the Caribbean Network Operators Group (CaribNOG) meeting ARIN congratulates the newly-selected ARIN 41 Fellowship recipients and wishes to thank everyone who recently applied to the ARIN Fellowship Program! The application process for ARIN 42, 4-5 October 2018 in Vancouver, BC, will open soon. To learn more about ARIN?s Fellowship Program, please visit and bookmark: https://www.arin.net/participate/meetings/fellowship.html For questions about the ARIN Fellowship Program, including becoming a community member mentor now or for future meetings, please emails members at arin.net. To learn more about or to register for ARIN 41 in Miami from 15-18 April, please visit: https://www.arin.net/ARIN41 Advance in-person meeting and remote participation registration are free. We look forward to your participation at ARIN 41 and future ARIN Public Policy and Members Meetings and events! Regards, Wendy Leedy Member Engagement Coordinator American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) From info at arin.net Fri Mar 23 15:07:17 2018 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 15:07:17 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] New Chief Operating Officer and Transition Plan Message-ID: We are pleased to announce the promotion of Richard Jimmerson as ARIN?s new Chief Operating Officer (COO) to replace Nate Davis, upon Nate?s retirement in the fourth quarter of 2018. Richard will work closely with Nate this year to transfer the critical functions of the role and ensure a successful transition. Richard has served as ARIN?s Chief Information Officer (CIO) since 2013; and previously from 2007 to 2011. With Richard?s extensive tenure with ARIN, he brings a wealth of experience to his new role. Richard?s previous roles at ARIN include Director of External Relations, Director of Operations, Director of Registration Services, and Internet Protocol Analyst. Richard also served as the Senior Director of Deployment and Operationalization at the Internet Society from 2011 to 2013. Join me in congratulating Richard on his new role! Regards, John Curran President and CEO American Registry for Internet Numbers From info at arin.net Tue Mar 27 15:07:26 2018 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 15:07:26 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] ARIN Bits: March 2018 Message-ID: <5ABA966E.4050306@arin.net> ARIN Bits: March 2018 In this issue: **Join Us at ARIN 41 in Miami** **Changes Ahead for www.arin.net** **ARIN in the Caribbean** **Will We See You at ARIN on the Road?** **Current Policy Proposals Under Discussion** **New Features Added to ARIN Online in February 2018** **Two Consultations Currently Open** **Featured Policy Requirement** **Tip from ARIN?s Registration Services Department** **Tip from ARIN?s Financial Services Department** **Customer and Member Statistics as of 28 February 2018** **Helpful IPv6 Links** **Stay Engaged with ARIN** **Join Us at ARIN 41 in Miami** ARIN 41 is next month! Are you ready? We are! We hope to see you in sunny Miami, Florida from 15-18 April at the Hilton Miami Downtown. This will be a great opportunity to engage in policy discussions, network with colleagues, learn more about ARIN services and operations, and attend workshops and tutorials. If you can?t be there in person, remote participation is always an option and is equally rewarding. To view the agenda for ARIN 41, visit https://www.arin.net/ARIN41_agenda To register as either an in-person or remote attendee, visit https://www.arin.net/ARIN41_register **Changes Ahead for www.arin.net** In case you haven?t heard, big changes are on the horizon for www.arin.net! We are currently digging into a major effort to modernize and improve our website so that it is more attractive, intuitive, responsive, and accessible. In short, we want to make using the ARIN website a better experience for everyone. If you?re interested in what lies ahead for www.arin.net, then we hope you?re planning on attending ARIN 41 in Miami. During the meeting, there will be a presentation summarizing our efforts and we?ll even be showing off a preliminary preview of the new site so we can gather user feedback right at the meeting. It will be a great opportunity for the community to get a feel for the new website and steer us in the right direction with their feedback! We are also currently running a Tree Test (learn more at https://teamarin.net/2018/02/08/shaking-tree-working-toward-new-www-arin-net/) to get community input on the navigation on the new website. If you would like to participate, please visit: https://47yg5n18.optimalworkshop.com/treejack/8686p866 We thank everyone for their patience as we work toward the completion of this very important project. **ARIN in the Caribbean** In February, Caribbean Outreach Liaison Bevil Wooding launched a new initiative called ARIN in the Caribbean, designed specifically for the Caribbean portion of the ARIN region. Programs in Grenada, Barbados, St. Lucia, and St. Kitts and Nevis were well attended. The one-day program features information on ARIN and its services, as well as how we can help you and your organizations design, secure, and maintain robust networks and contribute to Internet numbering policy development for the region. ARIN in the Caribbean events are free to attend and offer a great environment to learn and share. The program includes presentations on timely topics such as obtaining IPv6 addresses from ARIN and transfers of number resources. In addition, there will be presentations on current policy discussions, ARIN technical services, and best practices for building resilient Caribbean networks. To learn more and view upcoming dates and locations, visit: https://teamarin.net/caribbean/ **Will We See You at ARIN on the Road?** ARIN on the Road is your chance to get face time with ARIN and get your questions answered. These traveling, no-cost events provide the latest from ARIN on everything from technical services and tools to current ARIN policy developments and the status of IPv6 adoption. ARIN on the Road will visit Minneapolis, MN on 1 May and London, ON on 3 May. Registration is now open for both events: https://www.arin.net/minneapolis https://www.arin.net/ontario And mark your calendars: ARIN on the Road will also be making stops in St. Louis, MO and Atlanta, GA on 5 and 7 June, respectively. We hope to see you at an upcoming event! **Current Policy Proposals Under Discussion** Find the status of current policy discussions at https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/ and subscribe to ARIN-PPML (Public Policy Mailing List) to voice your opinions. Membership is not required to participate! Recommended Draft Policies under discussion: -ARIN-2017-3: Update to NPRM 3.6: Annual Whois POC Validation -ARIN-2017-8: Amend Community Networks -ARIN-2017-10: Repeal of Immediate Need for IPv4 Address Space (NRPM Section 4.2.1.6) -ARIN-2017-12: Require New POC Validation Upon Reassignment -ARIN-2017-13: Remove ARIN Review Requirements for Large IPv4 Reassignments/ Reallocations Draft Policies under discussion: -ARIN-2017-9: Clarification of Initial Block Size for IPv4 ISP Transfers -ARIN-2018-1: Allow Inter-regional ASN Transfers -ARIN-2018-2: Clarification to ISP Initial Allocation and Permit Renumbering Editorial changes under discussion: -Correct References to Rwhois (formerly ARIN-prop-251) -Reallocation and Reassignment Language Cleanup (formerly Draft Policy ARIN-2017-11) **New Features Added to ARIN Online in February 2018** -We completed a number of performance improvements and implemented multiple bug fixes on Whois. -Transfer performance was improved, resulting in shorter processing time for large transfers. -Pages and processes in ARIN Online were improved and streamlined, including Transfer Requests, Ticket - Request Details, Ask ARIN, and Password Change. -ARIN?s MD5-PW generator has been updated and is available for use with ARIN?s Internet Routing Registry (IRR). It is available at: https://www.arin.net/public/hashTool.xhtml -Updated the Whois Inaccuracy Form to provide additional guidance to users. -For Two-Factor Authentication, removed QR code and key viewing after initial setup (customer request). **Two Consultations Currently Open** On occasion, ARIN needs to consult with its members and/or the community at-large regarding ARIN services and practices. To address this need, the ARIN Consultation and Suggestion Process (ACSP) was formed. The ACSP enables communications in an organized, deliberate, and transparent manner, and provides a feedback mechanism whereby the sense of the community or members regarding a specific issue can be gauged. We currently have two consultations open for community feedback: -2018.1: ARIN Internet Routing Registry (IRR) Roadmap (https://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/community_consult/01-09-2018_irr.html) -2018.2: ASO Review Consultation 2018 (https://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/community_consult/02-01-2018_aso.html) Consultation 2018.1 will remain open until 25 April and 2018.2 will remain open until 30 April. To contribute to the discussion, 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 **Featured Policy Requirement** Pre-approval for Transfers between Specified Recipients within the ARIN Region (NRPM 8.3) and Inter-RIR Transfers to Specified Recipients (NRPM 8.4) Did you know your organization can be pre-approved to receive transfers for up to your 24-month demonstrated need? Once pre-approved, you can then submit as many 8.3 and/or 8.4 transfers as needed until your 24-month pre-approved amount is depleted. If you would like to submit a transfer pre-approval request, please find additional information and instructions on our Transfer Pre-Approval page: https://www.arin.net/resources/transfers/preapproval.html **Tip from ARIN?s Registration Services Department** Don?t forget that ARIN Resource Analysts are easily reachable via telephone! If you would like to discuss anything related to ARIN Online, Internet number requests, or any other service we offer, give our Registration Services team a call at 703.227.0660 Monday through Friday, 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM ET. There is rarely a queue, and our average wait time is currently at 10 seconds! **Tip from ARIN?s Financial Services Department** Are you wondering why you have not received an invoice or other communication from ARIN? The cause may be related to any number of reasons, but some common reasons could be that the: -contact left the company, -contact changed roles within your company, or -company email address changed Annual invoices and reminder notices are emailed to persons who have been designated to represent the organization as the Billing, Admin, and Tech contact. Keeping these contacts up-to-date is an important part of making sure your annual invoices and reminder notices arrive in your inbox on time. To update the Admin and Tech Point of Contact (POC), see the tip from our Registration Services Department in ARIN Bits in December 2017: https://teamarin.net/2017/12/15/arin-bits-december-2017/ To update the Billing contact, you must use one of the methods below, including the Organization Identifier (Org ID) or last invoice number to identify the account: -Send an email to billing at arin.net -Submit an ARIN Online request from within the ?Payments & Billing? link located on the left -Mail (correspondence only) to PO Box 232290, Centreville, VA 20120 Have any questions? Give our Financial Services Department a call at 703.227.9886 or submit an Ask ARIN ticket from within your ARIN Online account, and an account representative will be happy to help you. **Customer and Member Statistics as of 28 February 2018** -37,000+ organizations served by ARIN -21,000+ organizations under contract with ARIN, including 5,732 member organizations -309 8.3 transfers and 31 8.4 transfers completed YTD 2018 -8.4 transfers completed YTD 2018: 23 to APNIC, 5 from APNIC, 4 to RIPE NCC, 3 from RIPE NCC -56.4% of members have an IPv6 block **Helpful IPv6 Links** -Dedicated IPv4 block to facilitate IPv6 Deployment - https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html#four10 - under this policy, ARIN set aside a contiguous /10 IPv4 block for allocations and assignments justified by immediate IPv6 deployment requirements. This block is subject to a minimum size allocation of /28 and a maximum size allocation of /24. -List of IPv6 Training Consultants - https://getipv6.info/display/IPv6/IPv6+Consulting+and+Training+Services -Software Developers Guide to Writing and Migrating Network Applications for Use on IPv6 Networks - https://www.arin.net/knowledge/preparing_apps_for_v6.pdf -IPv6 Number Planning - https://www.arin.net/resources/ipv6_planning.html **Stay Engaged with ARIN** Check out www.TeamARIN.net for our latest blogs, including recent posts about employee tenure at ARIN, IPv6 tips, and strengthening Internet infrastructure in the Caribbean. Missed an issue of ARIN Bits? Past issues can be found in our Bits archive: https://teamarin.net/category/arin-bits/ Stay connected with us on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/TeamARIN Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TeamARIN LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ARIN/ Google+: https://plus.google.com/+TeamARIN From info at arin.net Wed Mar 28 17:16:49 2018 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 17:16:49 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] Consultation on ACSP 2018.3 Message-ID: <14d82c9c-0f98-23b8-f505-5b9f8ce215d9@arin.net> ARIN has received a suggestion requesting Whois queries made from "http" be automatically redirected to "https" in order to make the queries more secure. It has also been suggested ARIN consider using HSTS for Whois services. These suggestions were made through ARIN's Consultation and Suggestion Process and are documented at the following URL: https://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/suggestions/2018-3.html Question: Should ARIN automatically redirect user Whois queries made via "http" to "https"? Question: If ARIN redirects http to https requests, should ARIN then use HSTS for web-based Whois queries? The feedback you provide during this consultation will help inform how ARIN will proceed in response to ACSP 2018.3. All messages that have been sent to the arin-consult mailing lists in response to this suggestion prior to the opening of this consultation will be included in our feedback collection resulting from this consultation. Thank you for your participation in the ARIN Consultation and Suggestion Process. 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 Discussion on arin-consult at arin.net will close on 30 April 2018. 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 Fri Mar 30 11:26:06 2018 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 11:26:06 -0400 Subject: [arin-announce] New Search Engine For ARIN.NET Website Message-ID: <735c0e16-265f-4c2a-adee-e56b0c384084@arin.net> As of today, we've implemented a new site search engine for the ARIN.NET website. The site search page remains the same (https://www.arin.net/search.html) and "Search Related Content" search boxes within sections of the site will be available as before. However, as part of the transition, users may notice the ordering of search results is different than the output of our previous site search. This is the result of switching to a new underlying search engine, which is expected to improve with usage over time. All content within the site (excluding ARIN Online and Whois) is available through the site search feature, including archived content within the ARIN Vault. If you are unable to find specific content through search queries, or have feedback about the new site search, please let us know at webmaster at arin.net. Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)