[ppml] Path forward on 2006-1

[Ray Plzak]

> 
> Assuming that all address data may be suppressed, the only argument I
> heard in favor of ARIN continuing to get that data came from the ARIN
> staff.

It was not an argument for or against the policy. The staff comment was that
the information was still required for purpose of verification.

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> but the meeting transcript says:
> 
>  	"The proposal as written could be interpreted -- no longer
>  	provides different country information on the reassignment
>  	template. ARIN must continue to collect this information in
>  	order for forum verification, reassignment information and
>  	utilization. ARIN could not implement the proposal as
>  	written and continue to perform verification of reassignment
>  	information and utilization."
> 

The transcript mangles the discrete points on the slide. For example, I
believe the word "forum" in the transcript is the word "perform" on the
slide.

> I'd like to hear more from the staff about that need.  To the extent
> that they need any individual customer data to verify use of an
> address block, I'd like to know why no other metric is sufficient,
> particularly some variant of those metrics already used for blocks
> which aren't SWIP'ed or pool address blocks.

While not necessarily needed for verification of all address ranges, it is
needed. I will not go into a discussion of how often or under which
circumstances it is specifically used, but will say that it is necessary
information needed by staff to perform their work.

> 
> My suspicion, which I'd like staff to confirm, is that some variant on
> the existing metrics will suffice, and they do not need the
> city/state/postal code of individual users.

City/state/postal code of individual users is a part of the metrics that are
used by staff. We will confirm that we do use it.

Ray


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