[arin-announce] Maintenance Work Scheduled for Saturday, 24 March

[ARIN]

On Saturday, 24 March 2012 ARIN will be conducting maintenance on 
back-end systems in order to upgrade the management applications for 
ARIN Online and upgrade Whois-RWS. The work will take place from 6:00 AM 
until approximately 5:00 PM EDT. There are two phases to this work window.

Between 6:00 AM and 1:00 PM EDT ARIN users will experience interruption 
of three external services while this maintenance is performed. For the 
duration, you will not be able to log in to your ARIN Online account. 
Any mail sent to Registration Services will be queued and not 
immediately acknowledged. Additionally, transactions submitted via 
ARIN’s RESTful Provisioning service will be rejected with an outage 
error. Once the systems are back online, you will regain use of your 
ARIN Online account and queued mail will be processed. You will need to 
resubmit any RESTful calls sent during the outage so they can be 
processed. Whois services may be degraded during this time.

Between 12:00 PM and 5:00 PM EDT, all ARIN services will be available, 
but Whois services may be degraded while the system updates are completed.
All other ARIN publicly available services (IRR, website, etc) will be 
available during this outage.

Thank you for your patience and cooperation.

Regards,

Mark Kosters
Chief Technical Officer
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)