[ppml] Proposed Policy: Bulk WHOIS agreement expiration clarification

[Owen DeLong]

In general, I like this.  However, I would change the violation claus to

... or upon notice from ARIN to the other party that ARIN believes the
terms were violated...

With the current language, the determination of a violation is left
far too ambiguous for my tastes.

Owen


--On April 6, 2006 1:50:28 PM -0400 Member Services <memsvcs at arin.net>
wrote:

> ARIN received the following policy proposal. In accordance with the ARIN
> Internet Resource Policy Evaluation Process, the proposal is being
> posted to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List (PPML) and being placed on
> ARIN's website.
> 
> The ARIN Advisory Council (AC) will review this proposal and may decide
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>         c) combine the proposal with other proposals; or,
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> 
> The AC review will be conducted at the next regularly scheduled meeting
> of the AC that occurs after the proposal is posted to PPML.
> 
> Since this proposal was received within 10 days of the next scheduled
> meeting of the ARIN Advisory Council, the review period will be extended
> to the regularly scheduled meeting that occurs after the upcoming meeting.
> 
> This proposal will not be on the agenda for the upcoming ARIN XVII
> Public Policy Meeting.
> 
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> 
> 
> Policy Proposal Name: Bulk WHOIS agreement expiration clarification
> 
> Author: Bill Woodcock
> 
> Proposal Version: 1.0
> 
> Proposal type: Modify
> 
> Policy term: Permanent
> 
> Policy statement:
> 
> Text added to the end of "3.1. Bulk Copies of ARIN's WHOIS":
> 
> If no term of validity or expiration date is included in the policy or
> AUP, it shall be deemed valid upon acceptance by ARIN and shall conclude
> after thirty days notice by ARIN, immediately upon cancellation by the
> other signatory, or immediately upon a violation of its terms. If an
> expiration date is included, ARIN shall provide thirty days notice prior
> to the expiration of an AUP agreement, in order that the data recipient
> shall have the opportunity to receive uninterrupted service.
> 
> Rationale:
> 
> Presently, there is no expiration date specified in either the AUP
> agreement nor in the policy. ARIN whois data recipients receive an FTP
> login to an ARIN server, which unexpectedly stops working one day,
> breaking lots of scripts, causing gaps in datasets, and causing people
> to waste a lot of time debugging, only to find that the login has been
> deactivated with no forewarning.  If ARIN staff are going to arbitrarily
> decide to "expire" an agreement which has no defined expiration, doing
> so unilaterally and without notice is an extraordinarily bad idea.
> 
> Let me just say that I think it's really pitiful that we should need to
> use the policy process to micromanage operations at this level. But
> believe me, I wouldn't be wasting my time writing something this trivial
> if it weren't necessary to solve an actual problem.
> 
> Timetable for implementation: Immediate.
> 
> Meeting presenter: Bill Woodcock
> 
> 
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