[arin-discuss] ARIN spammed us with "talk to the hand" ?

[Scott Leibrand]

Jo,

I was not involved in any discussions around that notice, but when I got 
it, I interpreted it as saying, "We're aware of a problem, and believe 
it may affect a lot of you.  We can't fix it for you, but here's what 
you need to know to get it fixed if you're affected."

Quite reasonable, IMO.

-Scott

Jo Rhett wrote:
> Can someone explain to me why ARIN spammed all of our ARIN contacts  
> (including (A)buse contacts!) with a notice that says "talk to the  
> hand" ?
>
>   
>> If you or your peers experience any of these types of problems, you  
>> are
>> encouraged to contact and work with third-party information software  
>> vendors
>> and/or the content providers directly to effect changes.
>>     
>
> If ARIN can not and will not do anything to contact these parties and  
> get it resolved, why does it send a notice telling us with this?  Next  
> week will we see a notice that ARIN won't be involved in saving  
> starving children in Africa?  I imagine that ARIN will be very busy  
> informing us of every thing it does not plan to work on ... is this  
> helpful?  Honestly?
>
> Entire message below:
>   
>> Per a request from an ARIN customer, ARIN is sending you this letter  
>> as
>> a courtesy notification of problems some registrants of ARIN-issued  
>> IPv4
>> addresses have experienced.
>>
>> Some geolocation and content providers are misidentifying ARIN-issued
>> address space as being outside the ARIN region. Common problems  
>> experienced
>> by ARIN registrants over the last two years include:
>>
>> - search engines misidentifying the addresses as being in South  
>> America;
>> - content caching providers sending traffic via nodes in South  
>> America; and
>> - e-commerce transactions failing or being delaying due to fraud  
>> prevention
>> procedures being triggered when the payment processing system  
>> believes the
>> transaction is originating in South America.
>>
>> Registrants have experienced these problems both with new IANA- 
>> issued /8s
>> (like 173.0.0.0/8 and 174.0.0.0/8) and with /8s which ARIN has  
>> issued and
>> re-issued over many years (like 63.0.0.0/8).
>>
>> If you or your peers experience any of these types of problems, you  
>> are
>> encouraged to contact and work with third-party information software  
>> vendors
>> and/or the content providers directly to effect changes.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Leslie Nobile
>> Director, Registration Services
>> American Registry for Internet Numbers
>>