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

[John M. Brown]

It was brought to my attention that I might want to spec this
a bit tighter.

Richard, a TAR ball of the all the in-addr.arpa zones that 
ARIN serves compressed with GZ would be ideal. 

Hope this helps.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ppml at arin.net [mailto:owner-ppml at arin.net] On 
> Behalf Of Richard Jimmerson
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 3:08 PM
> To: ppml at arin.net
> Subject: RE: [ppml] A proposal to modify proposal 2003-9 
> (WHOIS and INADDR access)
> 
> 
> Hello John,
> 
> > > ftp://ftp.arin.net/pub/zones
> > because that URL does not provide complete data and
> > is only for a specific project, per richardj (6-6-03).
> 
> Yes.  Information published at this location is in support 
> of the Early Registration Transfer (ERX) project.  We only 
> publish zone information there for which we are generating 
> merged zone files.  The information is there for the RIRs 
> and to allow participants from the merged zones to verify 
> that their data is getting merged properly.  As new /8s are 
> included in the ERX project, information is published to the 
> ftp directory cited above.
> 
> Would a gz file of the reversed mapped domains that ARIN 
> manages available on an FTP site meet your needs?  Do you 
> think there should be an AUP for this?
> 
> Richard Jimmerson
> Director of Operations
> American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ppml at arin.net [mailto:owner-ppml at arin.net] On
> > Behalf Of John M. Brown
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 6:13 AM
> > To: william at elan.net
> > Cc: ppml at arin.net
> > Subject: RE: [ppml] A proposal to modify proposal 2003-9 
> > (WHOIS and INADDR access)
> > 
> > 
> > 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
> > > 
> > 
>