[ppml] Policy Proposal: Authentication of Legacy Resources

[William Herrin]

On 7/10/07, Rich Emmings <rich at nic.umass.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, William Herrin wrote:
> > borrow a
> > lesson from property law and set up an escheat process.
>
> Treat these as property, and I think you open a large can of worms.

I think we can probably borrow ideas anywhere we find good ones.
Escheat, for example, allows a local government to take back ownership
of a private property when its owner can no longer be identified or
contacted. It generally involves placing notices about the property's
pending ownership change on the property itself and in various
newspapers and then waiting a reasonable amount of time for anyone to
step forward and offer information that leads to the owner.

Except for the "property," "owner," and "government" parts, that's
pretty much exactly what we want here.


> I know one record where the end user is getting their service from an
> upstream ISP, with split dns, one @ upstream ISP, and one local.  The local
> DNS is not globally pingable which is wrong, but the way it is.  The global
> DNS is an error, referencing a virtual mail domain, which no longer supports
> dns services so it isn't accurate either.  The ARIN contact for the network
> record is a BITNET address.  Record last updated over 10 year ago.  No
> AS, no dual homing.)

If they're using the addresses on the global Internet then someone is
announcing the routes. That someone can be contacted and can either
provide informatinon to ARIN or (if he's a stickler for privacy) pass
a message from ARIN to the registrant to the effect of "contact us to
avoid losing your addresses."

If the addresses are used on a private lan then you do the
escheat-like process. At that point, good samaritans can certainly
step up and say, "Hey, here's the guy you want to talk to and his
phone number is."

And if after all of that your example folks don't find their addresses
important enough to contact ARIN then their actions have expressed
pretty clearly the level of importance they attach to keeping the
addresses.

Regards,
Bill



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