[consult] Community Consultation - Daily Publication of IP Addresses Issued and Returned

Member Services wrote:
> ARIN would like to consult the community on the merits of the second 
> part of Suggestion 2008-2 [excerpt below, full suggestion at bottom]:
>
> "In addition, ARIN should publish a report of addresses returned, and 
> addresses issued, in the form of a mailing list (with daily email) and

> an RSS feed. This will only contain allocations/assignments made 
> directly by ARIN or address blocks returned to ARIN's free pool. The 
> intent is that RBL operators can subscribe to such a feed and keep
their 
> own lists clean."
>
> Although there is some merit in allowing the community prompt
visibility 
> to both the IP blocks being returned to ARIN's available pool of 
> addresses and the IP blocks being issued by ARIN to the community, we 
> also see this as a potential target for abuse. Specifically, certain 
> parties may take the opportunity to use and announce IP addresses from

> these ranges without having the administrative authority to do so.  To

> that end, there are two questions we like to ask the community:
>
> 1) Does the community think that the merits of this proposal outweigh 
> the potential for abuse?
>
> 2) If the merits do outweigh the abuse, what sorts of suggestions do
you 
> have to mitigate potential for abuse?

1) Yes
2) Perhaps the list could be published to an accredited list of existing
list maintainers, such as Team-Cymru.org. Then ISPs could continue to
use current practices with more confidence that the lists are current.
These accredited list maintainers should not be allowed to turn that
privileged position into a revenue stream though.

Mel Stotyn 
Senior Operations Specialist 
ENMAX Envision Inc. 
mailto:mstotyn at enmax.com 
Phone: 403 514-3443

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