[ppml] RIPE and APNIC make in-addrs avail with no fuss.

[william at elan.net]

> Perhaps ARIN has gone too far the other way, requiring too much stuff to go 
> through the policy process.  But where should ARIN draw the line?

In my view its exactly what AC is supposed to do - give ARIN its opinion 
if something is or is not policy issue, and if it is, then send it to 
policy process with either somebody from AC taking the lead or somebody 
else from the public proposing necessary policy. If it is not, give its 
view/recomendation on how to best handle it if ARIN is not sure.

This entire problem with in-addr seems to have been completely unnessarily 
raised question for policy making. I really do not see anything wrong with 
ARIN just making the data publicly available (and neither do other RIRs it 
seems) and its not very hard when they already have this data to just copy 
it to ftp server (yes some work is involved to make sure copy process goes 
ok, etc but really this is very small considering other things arin does 
including without any specific policy about it). 

And as far as possible AUP - this is different from whois. In whois AUP, 
private data and email addresses and provided as a bulk and as a result 
its an easy case for abuse (for advertising and such), so AUP is to protect 
the data. While with INADDR access its not the data that people are 
worried but that the process of getting it may put strain on arin servers 
- if there needs to be an aup for such a case, it needs to be completely 
different then whois and should not be related to it.

This is probably my last email on this subject... Lets hope arin seen all 
this and will make inaddr data available on their ftp soon for those who 
need it (I really don't think it would be that many that download it or 
put strain on its resources - unlike possibly if this was done by dns 
transfers, which idea I do not like either).

-- 
William Leibzon
Elan Communications Inc. 
william at elan.net