[ppml] Policy Proposal 2007-15: Authentication ofLegacyResources

[Steve Bertrand]

>>From my point of view, there are two impediments from putting my
> company's legacy IPv4 /24 under an ARIN RSA:
> 
> 1.  I don't know how to do it.
> 2.  I don't understand what affect the current RSA would have on our
> current IPv4 /24 use.
> 
> Over the last month, any discussion of doing something to encourage
> legacy IPv4 address holders to do somethng gets lost in the chourus of
> "let's figure out how to punish them because they haven't done whatever"
> where the focus is on the methods to punish, not on the definition of
> "whatever".
> 
> If you really want me to sign an RSA, add information to the ARIN web
> site about how a legacy address holder would go about signing an RSA,
> and what effect signing the RSA would have.

As a first step, would it be feasible to have a web-based 'opt-in' type
page, where legacy holders can fill out their information, the size of
space they hold, and without entering into any binding agreements, at
least imply that they are at least willing to find out more about the
RSA process and impacts?

This way, if these willing-to-learn-more legacy holders are not actively
monitoring these lists, they can be notified by email about important
updates/changes in policy, and what effects said changes will have on
them if/when they do decide to sign an RSA.

The more legacy holders that we know about (especially that are not dead
set against coming out of the woodworks), the more we can learn about
their concerns and ideas, which may have an impact on the mind-set of
the community in regards to policy steering.

Again, I have no idea if this is feasible or worth the effort or not.

Steve