[arin-discuss] Privacy of Reassignment Information

--On April 7, 2006 10:25:11 PM -0400 "Divins, David" <dsd at servervault.com>
wrote:

> All,
> 
> Provided an ISP, or other direct assignment recipient, supplies valid
> and responsive (24x7) Abuse, NOC, and other pertinent contact
> information, a reassignment should be allowed to remain private.
> 
First, a direct assignment recipient cannot reassign, so, this would
not apply to a direct assignment recipient.

Second, the policy was abandoned fairly recently due to lack of
support by the community and lack of consensus to move forward.

IP resources are an element of public trust.  It is common and widespread
practice to disclose as a matter of public record possessory interest
in public resources.  The public interest in an open and equitable
system of resource assignments and allocations overrides ISPs
interest in hiding the identities of their customers.


> The ability for an ISP to selectively and voluntarily make an assignment
> private will still allow ARIN to have accurate reassignment information
> as the assignments will be provided to ARIN privately whenever address
> utilization must be determined.
> 
ARIN is a stewardship organization.  The IP addresses are no more owned
by ARIN than by any recipient organization.  They are administered by
ARIN and the ISPs in the public trust.  They are public resources.

> The private designation in no way relieves the ISP of its responsibility
> to the Internet community.  In fact, a private reassignment expands this
> responsibility as the ISP actually must take on the responsibility
> providing valid 24x7 point of contact.
> 
The community vehemently opposed adding such a requirement to the previous
attempt at such a policy.

> If an ISP is unable or unwilling to provide a responsive NOC/abuse
> contact, then they may not designate any reassignments as private.
> 
How would you propose to prevent ISPs from ignoring this requirement?

Owen

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