[ARIN-consult] Reminder - Consultation on the Future of ARIN’s Unauthenticated IRR Closes 8 March

[John Sweeting]

ARIN Community,
 
Here are some interesting statistics reference the ARIN NONAUTH IRR and courses of action ARIN is taking:
 
Total NONAUTH Objects: 64,632 (63,424 route, 956 Aut-num, 139 As-set, 113 Route-set)
 
Of that total 20,488 objects (31.7%) are from organizations with no agreement with ARIN (legacy resources). The simplistic way to fix these are for those organizations to sign an agreement with ARIN (LSRA/RSA). This would immediately move these to ARIN AUTH on the next migration. The other simple solution is to move them to an alternate IRR other than ARIN.
 
That would leave 44,144 NONAUTH objects.
 
Of that total 5,611 are from a registry other than ARIN. These objects need to be registered in the IRR of the RIR that manages them or to an alternate IRR other than ARIN.
 
That leaves us at 38,533.
 
Of that total ~32,000 are proxy registration by the real holder’s upstream ISP. This is a bit trickier but ARIN plans to work with each of these ISPs to help them educate their customers on how to build their own objects in the ARIN AUTH IRR. Since these are already ARIN resources assigned to holders under an agreement ARIN will work with them to help them generate the correct objects.
 
That leaves us with around 6,500 objects that we need to research further in order to identify the solutions. It could be that most of these just no longer have any network existing in the ARIN database and can simply be deleted.
 
ARIN is currently working these solutions with our customers and plan to continue this work.

Please continue to provide your thoughts and concerns so that ARIN can put together a plan to get us where we need to be on this. 

Thanks,

John Sweeting
Chief Customer Officer, ARIN

On 3/1/21, 1:21 PM, "ARIN-consult on behalf of ARIN" <arin-consult-bounces at arin.net on behalf of info at arin.net> wrote:

    The community feedback provided during this consultation will help inform how we move forward. Please provide comments to arin-consult at arin.net. You can subscribe to this mailing list at:

    http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-consult

    This consultation will remain open through 5:00 PM ET on Monday, 8 March.

    ***

    ARIN has been engaged in a multi-year project to create and deploy a new and improved Internet Routing Registry (IRR). On 10 June 2020 (https://www.arin.net/announcements/20200610-irr/), we launched IRR-online, an authenticated and web-based service designed to make it simple for users to publish routing information via ARIN’s website. At that time, the existing IRR-email system was temporarily left in place to allow organizations to continue using email-based updates to publish routing information (in the ARIN-NONAUTH data stream).

    On 1 February 2021 (https://www.arin.net/announcements/20210201-rn/), we deployed a RESTful API to provide a way to securely automate updates to objects in ARIN’s authenticated IRR service.

    With the availability of automation for ARIN’s new IRR system, we intend to retire ARIN’s previous non-authenticated, email-based IRR service at the end of September 2021. We are providing advance notice of this plan so that organizations using the non-authenticated and email-based IRR will have time to switch publication of their routing registry information to a more current solution. Similarly, by establishing a firm end date for the non-authenticated and email-based IRR, organizations making use of the outdated and non-authenticated IRR data stream can be ready for when ARIN ceases publishing the ARIN-NONAUTH data stream.

    The authenticated IRR is available to all ARIN resource holders that have resources covered by a signed Registration Services Agreement (RSA) or Legacy Registration Services Agreement (LRSA). Organizations with resources not currently under an RSA/LRSA that wish to use the authenticated IRR may contact ARIN’s Registration Services Department for assistance with bringing those registrations under an RSA/LRSA.

    We recognize that this change will have significant impacts on our customers and, as always, we’re interested in your feedback regarding this proposed transition. In particular, we would appreciate hearing from the ARIN community regarding these aspects of the proposed transition:

    1. For those using ARIN’s email-based and non-authenticated IRR system, does the proposed shutdown date of 30 September 2021 provide sufficient time for migration to another IRR system?
    2. For those making use of the ARIN-NONAUTH data stream, is there any reason to provide this information beyond the system shutdown date?

    Regards,

    John Curran
    President and CEO
    American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)


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