[arin-discuss] The joy of SWIPping

[jlewis at atlantic.net]

On Mon, 12 May 2008, Owen DeLong wrote:

> 4.2.3.7.1. Customer organization information
> ISPs are required to demonstrate efficient use of IP address space 
> allocations by providing appropriate documentation, including assignment 
> histories, showing their efficient use. SWIP and RWHOIS reassignments should 
> show each client's organizational information.
>
> I do not believe your company's contact information qualifies
> as "Customer organization information".  It may be that ARIN
> has not yet noticed you doing this, but, this clearly violates
> the spirit of the policy, and, I believe the letter as well.

As far as contacing customers via whois lookup, is there some reason the 
ISP can't act as an agent for the customer?  This is sort of like the 
various domain whois privacy services...but not nearly as slimely IMO.

BTW...we do this as well.

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