[ppml] Policy Proposal: Resource Review Process

[William Herrin]

On 7/19/07, Dean Anderson <dean at av8.com> wrote:
>    2.  ARIN may conduct such reviews:
>      c. at any other time without cause unless a prior review has been
> completed in the preceding 12 months.

> But option c. is just begging for trouble "without cause". It gives an
> unlimited power to review the private customer data of a recipient
> "without cause" once a year.  ARIN shouldn't be doing anything without
> cause and justification.  One wonders why that would ever be good policy
> in any circumstance. The potential for abuse is tremendous.

This could be resolved by lengthening the review term to 60 months.
That offers some disincentive for a "just because" audit by preventing
ARIN from asking again for what amounts to a lifetime in the world of
IP address assignments. At the same time, it preserves the staff's
ability to make a documentation request without having to carefully
lay out the reasons and run it by the lawyers.

I'd also add a D and an E:

d. when all designated reverse DNS servers for a resource fail to
report authoritative for at least 3 months.

e. when a route to the block has not been present in the DFZ for at
least 3 months.


> There are some _bad_ reasons that Vixie cronies want this.

Was that statement really necessary? Did it add any value to the conversation?

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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