[ppml] Privacy of Reassignment Information

[william(at)elan.net]

This is really bad policy proposal. It disallows ability to do proper 
research on the ip allocations, including geographical mapping of ip usage, 
mapping of activity by organization type, etc. It significantly helps 
bad guys avoid responsibility and makes tracking them down much more 
difficult. It disallows ability to do public audits of arin and that
it is  making proper size allocations and assignments. It disallows 
ability for ISPs to confirm who customer is when request for BGP route
from new customer comes in and this may result is improper routing
decisions. Also disallows ability for ISP to know when customer should be 
referred to ARIN because of large space that they may have with different 
ISP already and thus may increase segmentation of ip space. And at the 
same time this gains no technical advantage as all swips still have to
be registered and maintained in the database same way. This also goes
against policies established by other RIRs which require reassignment
information be entered in their DBs and this is at the time when we're 
trying to get policies of RIRs to be more similar and more unified.

I'll be sure to add a lot more comments about above problems in detail when
we're actually discussing this, right now I just don't have time for more.

> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:36:00 -0700 (PDT)
> From: sandyg <sandyg at skat.usc.edu>
> To: ppml at arin.net
> Subject: [ppml] Privacy of Reassignment Information
> 
> I am submitting the following proposal IAW ARIN's Internet Resource Policy
> Evaluation Process. In the interest of all I would like to disclose up
> front that the information used to prepare this template was provided by
> ARIN staff.
> 
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> 
> Template: ARIN-POLICY-PROPOSAL-TEMPLATE-1.0
> 
> 1. Policy Proposal Name:  Privacy of Reassignment Information
> 
> 2. Author
>   a. name: Sanford George
>   b. e-mail: sandyg at usc.edu
>   c. telephone: 213-740-1473
>   d. organization: ARIN AC
> 
> 3. Proposal Version: 1
> 
> 4. Submission Date: 8/17/04
> 
> 5. Proposal type: modify
> 
> 6. Policy term: permanent
> 
> 7. Policy Statement:
> 
> ISPs may choose whether or not to designate reassignment information
> 'public'. Reassignment information that is not designated 'public' will be
> available only to ARIN, the entity that created it, and that entity's
> upstream organizations.  The maintenance of the accuracy of the data that is
> submitted whether it is public or private is the responsibility of the
> submitting ISP.
> 
> 8. Rationale:
> 
> Increasing concern about protection of private information on the Internet
> has been expressed by many parts of the community.  There have been numerous
> policy proposals over the last several years attempting to protect various
> portions of the displayed information. Concern has been expressed
> specifically about the requirement to publicly register customer
> assignments, which are often regarded by ISPs and customers as private
> information.
> 
> By publicly displaying reassignment information, the ISP is in some respects
> displaying its customer lists and other information that may be considered
> of a proprietary business interest.
> 
> 
> 9. Timetable for implementation: 30 days after the ratification of the
> policy by the ARIN Board of Trustees
> 
> 10. Meeting presenter: Sanford George
> 
> END OF TEMPLATE
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