[ppml] A proposal to modify proposal 2003-9 (WHOIS and INADDR access)

[John M. Brown]

because that URL does not provide complete data and
is only for a specific project, per richardj (6-6-03).

research the allocated space as listed at 
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space

and you will find the ftp site is missing a good chuck
of space.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ppml at arin.net [mailto:owner-ppml at arin.net] On 
> Behalf Of william at elan.net
> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 11:44 PM
> To: John M. Brown
> Cc: ppml at arin.net
> Subject: Re: [ppml] A proposal to modify proposal 2003-9 
> (WHOIS and INADDR access)
> 
> 
> Why do you need policy for providing in-addr data as bulk? I 
> think ARIN 
> already provides this all publicly as it, see 
> ftp://ftp.arin.net/pub/zones
> 
> Do you need something more then 
> that?
> 
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, John M. Brown wrote:
> 
> > 3. A policy for bulk WHOIS and or ARIN INADDR access will 
> be published 
> > on
> >    ARIN website as follows:
> > 
> > "Access to the entire WHOIS or ARIN INADDR database or 
> large portion 
> > of
> > it may be obtained by any organization or individual 
> provided that this 
> > organization or individual agrees in writing to ARIN WHOIS/INADDR
> > Acceptable 
> > Use Policy. WHOIS or ARIN INADDR data provided under bulk 
> WHOIS access 
> > will not include any information that is marked as private.
> > 
> > Access to WHOIS/INADDR data may be by way of:
> > 
> > Individual WHOIS/DNS queries
> > 
> > FTP or other type of download
> > 
> > Hard media distribution (such as CDROM)
> > 
> > 
> > -----
> > 
> > Given that ARIN now has policy  2002-1 Lame In-addr, 
> providing access 
> > to the in-addr view that ARIN has would be useful for the internet 
> > operational and research community, and help reduce lame 
> issues.  This 
> > access would allow service providers access to the IN-ADDR tree and 
> > allow them to self verify what deligations they are listed as 
> > authoritative for.  It would allow the research community a better 
> > source of data for research and other activities.
> > 
> > 
> > respectfully,
> > 
> > john brown
>