[ppml] Policy Proposal: Authentication of Legacy Resources

[Scott Leibrand]

Edward Lewis wrote:
> At 8:33 -0800 7/6/07, Andrew Dul wrote:
>   
>
>> Legacy IP address record holders who have not signed a registration services
>> agreement with ARIN will have their name server delegations for the
>> in-addr.arpa zone removed starting on June 30, 2009.  All name server
>> delegations shall be removed from the in-addr.arpa zone by December 31, 2009.
>>     
>
> Speaking as a member of ARIN (persumably in good standing but I can't 
> say as I don't sign the checks here) I beg that this is not done.
>
> I rely upon ARIN maintaining and publishing information on the 
> allocation of address space.  What is more important to me, as a 
> paying member, is complete, accurate, and up to date information. 
> What is not important to me i whether the information is about an 
> organization in good, bad, or indifferent standing with ARIN.
>
> We should always highlight the responsible/authorized party for 
> address space.  Members of ARIN benefit from this.  Please don't hide 
> network registrations.  (Yes, maybe the WhoIs is there, but still, 
> the registrant in the reverse map is not the reliant party.)
>   

Edward,

I can see how your arguments would apply to removing whois records from 
the database, but after re-reading the proposal I see that Andrew only 
proposed removing DNS delegation.  Can you explain how you depend on 
ARIN publishing information on the allocation of address space in DNS 
(rather than WHOIS)?  It would seem to me that ARIN members like you and 
me benefit primarily from having WHOIS information on legacy netblocks.

Thanks,
Scott