[ppml] RE: [arin-announce] Policy Proposal 2003-3: Residential Customer Privacy

[Einar Bohlin]

The two parts of a reassignment are contact information
and utilization information.  Even though ISPs seem 
to be taking over the contact part, the utilization
information is still valuable.

The simple reassignment is nice to have so customers
can look up and confirm their own networks.  And even
when you have your own database, whois lookups are good
now and then as a sanity check.

Personally I don't like the Private Individual proposal.
I believe it's enough that we're already able to list Private 
Residence (and you don't have to list a phone or email).

Also, simple reassignments are used for more than 
just individuals, they need to have the organization
info and be seen.

Regards,

Einar Bohlin, IP Analyst
IP Team - Ashburn Virginia - WorldCom
Phone: 703 886-7362 (VNET 806-7362)
email: einar.bohlin at wcom.com



On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Whipple, Scott (CCI-Atlanta) wrote:

> Seeing that there has not been any traffic with this proposal, it would seem not to many people really care.    What if we took this one a step further and did not show simple reassignments at all?  ISP's would still be required to swip showing utilization, but the records would no longer show up in a whois query.  If the ISP needed to see where their utilization statistics are they could send a message to hostmaster asking for a netinfo report.  
> 
> Simple reassignments have no DNS information or POC records associated with them, so if you are trying to trouble shoot a problem that happens to come from a range that has been assigned as a simple reassignment you still need to go to the upstream to get any information that may help.  To clarify, there is no useful information that comes from a simple reassignment.
> 
> What does everyone think?  
> 
> Scott
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Member Services [mailto:memsvcs at arin.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 1:07 PM
> To: arin-announce at arin.net; ppml at arin.net
> Subject: [arin-announce] Policy Proposal 2003-3: Residential Customer
> Privacy
> 
> 
> ARIN welcomes feedback and discussion about the following policy 
> proposal in the weeks leading to the ARIN Public Policy Meeting 
> in Memphis, Tennessee, scheduled for April 7-8, 2003. All feedback 
> received on the mailing list about this policy proposal will be 
> included in the discussions that will take place at the upcoming 
> Public Policy Meeting. 
> 
> This policy proposal discussion will take place on the ARIN Public 
> Policy Mailing List (ppml at arin.net). Subscription information is 
> available at http://www.arin.net/mailing_lists/index.html 
> 
> Richard Jimmerson 
> Director of Operations 
> American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) 
> 
> ### * ### 
> 
> Policy Proposal 2003-3: Residential Customer Privacy
> 
> Privacy of Residential Customer
> Name and Address Information
> In WHOIS
> 
> Policy Proposal Statement:
> 
> ARIN guidelines presently state that privacy of an individual's 
> residential address information may be protected in WHOIS by 
> indicating "Private Residence".  This policy proposal is intended 
> to provide additional information privacy through omission of an 
> individual's name from WHOIS, replacing their name with 
> "Private Individual".
> 
> The proposed policy would amend and modify the existing ARIN 
> guideline, forming a new, permanent policy. 
> 
> Rationale and Justification:
> 
> With the continued growth and popularity of DSL service,  increasing 
> numbers of individuals and small home-based businesses are taking 
> advantage of this technology.  Many of these customers require /29 
> or larger assignments to support small networks.  Knowing that WHOIS 
> is a public database, the majority of these customers have a viable 
> concern regarding the publication of  their name and address information 
> in WHOIS.  It is the responsibility of  an ISP to support the needs of 
> their customers, and protect customer privacy whenever possible.  This 
> policy specifically addresses the privacy issue on behalf of 
> home/residential customers.
> 
> The omission of personal name and address information from WHOIS is 
> analogous to residential telephone service.  When residential phone 
> service is activated, the individual's name, address and phone number 
> are listed in the telephone directory.  The individual may, however, 
> request an "unlisted" number, and their information is omitted from the 
> directory.  This policy proposes the "listing" of the IP subnet in WHOIS, 
> but individual name and address information would be "unlisted".
> 
> It is the responsibility of the ISP to maintain complete and accurate 
> information regarding the customer's name, address, etc.  This 
> information would be made available to ARIN (if requested) for audit 
> of netblock utilization in support of future allocations.
> 
> In these difficult times, home security and privacy is on everyone's mind.  
> As internet users, service providers and overseers, it is our combined 
> responsibility to do whatever is necessary to ensure the safety, and 
> protect the privacy of the internet community at large.
> 
>