[arin-discuss] Multiple POCs and associated cruft - anyscalable solution?

[Isaac Uban]

Are we talking about ORG-IDs? That is what I'm having a problem with.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Owen DeLong" <owen at delong.com>
To: "Jay Hennigan" <jay at impulse.net>
Cc: <arin-discuss at arin.net>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2014 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [arin-discuss] Multiple POCs and associated cruft - anyscalable 
solution?


> Have you considered not purchasing from vendors that do this to you
> until the correct it on your behalf?
>
> Owen
>
> On Jul 21, 2014, at 11:17 , Jay Hennigan <jay at impulse.net> wrote:
>
>> I have an ARIN POC identifier that dates back to when it was an Internic
>> handle.  I'm the network guy for a regional ISP in Southern California.
>>
>> Occasionally we need to order a circuit out of region for a customer,
>> and in the process typically a /29 of IPv4 space from another carrier.
>>
>> Invariably, for each and every one of these some automated process of
>> the carrier generates another ARIN POC for me.  No amount of cajoling or
>> requests to the carrier (I'm talking about you, AS209) to use the
>> existing one seems to be heard.
>>
>> As a result, every few months I wind up with a dozen or more ARIN POCs,
>> each of which generates annual verification requests, each of which
>> requires me to log in and create a profile, password, etc.  This simply
>> doesn't scale.
>>
>> There is no easy way to get these consolidated into my primary POC.
>> Every few months I gather the latest bunch of them and place a phone
>> call to ARIN and they work some behind the scenes magic to get them all
>> consolidated.
>>
>> I'm about to do this yet again, but it is a PITA.  What if anything are
>> others doing about this?  Just ignoring all of the verification cruft
>> emails doesn't seem to be the right thing to do, and ARIN's web-based
>> forms remind me of the original Adventure game.  "You're in a little
>> maze of twisty passages, all different."
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - jay at impulse.net
>> Impulse Advanced Communications  -  http://www.impulse.net/
>> Your local telephone and internet company - 805 884-6323 - WB6RDV
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