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

[michael.dillon at bt.com]

> Specifically, certain parties may take the 
> opportunity to use and announce IP addresses from these 
> ranges without having the administrative authority to do so.  

The nice thing about having an open feed like this is that
ISPs can automatically add the returned address blocks to
BGP filter lists. In fact, cymru.com, who offer a variety
of BGP filter lists in a variety of formats, could easily
convert ARIN's feed into other formats that many ISPs are
already subscribed to.

I think the risk for abuse here is minimal.

> 1) Does the community think that the merits of this proposal 
> outweigh the potential for abuse?

Yes.

> 2) If the merits do outweigh the abuse, what sorts of 
> suggestions do you have to mitigate potential for abuse?

Contact Team Cymru and arrange for them to add your feed
to their BGP filter feeds at the same time you open the
feed for public consumption. Also, offer Team Cymru access to
other ARIN data that they might be able to leverage to
further improve their services which attach various
attributes to different address ranges. Perhaps an
ARIN-reserved attribute would be useful or an ARIN-unallocated
or even an ARIN-reallocated attribute.

If anyone has not been to the Team Cymru website recently,
have a look at <http://www.team-cymru.org/> and particularly,
their Services page.

--Michael Dillon