[arin-discuss] Privacy of Reassignment Information

[william(at)elan.net]

You're not required to provide your email address or phone for ARIN 
reassignment records (yes, there are marketeers that will send postal
mail advertisement, but that seems far from being serious issue).

Phone and email are only required for contact information and that
is optional and you can always choose to use your ISP's contact for 
reassignment (in fact that is how its done for simple reassignment).

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Gary Wall wrote:

> Hi Tom,
>
> I agree that there is a duty to be transparent. But open records are
> abused by spammers and enforcement against them is like trying to get
> the toothpaste back in the tube.  Maybe having a system that requires a
> non-machine readable challenge-response like Godaddy or such might be
> the solution for all parties that need to query this information. There
> might be a backdoor for qualified parties on a need-to-know basis.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Gary
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net
> [mailto:arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net] On Behalf Of Tom Vest
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 1:28 PM
> To: ppml at arin.net
> Cc: ARIN-discuss at arin.net; Mark Erskine
> Subject: Re: [arin-discuss] Privacy of Reassignment Information
>
> If the information can be legitimately obscured, then it is only a
> matter of time before the anonymity will be abused by unscrupulous
> people.
>
> I think it would be prudent to take a letter from other "governance"
> discussions, and strongly resist the temptation to combat "higher
> level" abuses by imposing the enforcement burden on "lower level"
> operations/administrative structures. ARIN and the RIRs are vested
> with responsibility for maintaining records for number resources held
> in public trust. If the records are abused, the specific abuses and
> abusers should be targeted -- even if this is more difficult --
> rather than taking the easy route of attacking the underlying systems.
>
> Tom
>
> On Apr 10, 2006, at 12:37 PM, G.Hiscott wrote:
>
>> if the information is available, then it is only a matter of time
>> before it
>> will be abused for marketing purposes by unscrupolous sales people.
>>
>>
>> ___
>> www.keyconnect.com
>>
>> ...... Original Message .......
>> On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:23:34 -0400 "Mark Erskine"
>> <MErskine at HostDepot.com>
>> wrote:
>>> I'll second that!
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mark Erskine
>>> Host Depot, Inc.
>>> http://www.HostDepot.com
>>> Phone: 954.340.3527
>>> Fax: 954.340.3539
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net
>>> [mailto:arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net] On Behalf Of Barry Dykes
>>> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 12:20 PM
>>> Cc: ARIN-discuss at arin.net; ppml at arin.net
>>> Subject: Re: [arin-discuss] Privacy of Reassignment Information
>>>
>>> I have to say that I do not agree with making everything public.
>>> Spam
>>> and phishing are one thing, but I pay a lot of money to get my
>>> customers
>>> and more to keep them.  I have no intention of posting that for any
>>> competitor to browse.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>
>>> Barry A. Dykes
>>> VP Engineering/Operations
>>> ViaWest Internet Services
>>> bdykes at viawest.net
>>> 303-407-4708
>>>
>>>
>>>
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