[arin-ppml] Policy Proposal: Whois Integrity Policy Proposal

[Keith W. Hare]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net 
> [mailto:arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net] On Behalf Of Leo Bicknell
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 10:57 AM
> To: arin-ppml at arin.net
> Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Policy Proposal: Whois Integrity 
> Policy Proposal
> 
> In a message written on Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:47:15AM 
> -0400, Keith W. Hare wrote:
> > My biggest objection to the proposal is that it sounds like 
> a stick to
> > beat up the evil legacy resource holder because they 
> haven't been paying
> > their fair share. Until less than a year ago, ARIN did not have a
> > process or documentation in place to allow a legacy 
> resource holder to
> > bring the resource under some kind of agreement.
> 
> This is not an entirely true statement.  I'll be the first to admit
> ARIN had insufficient publically available information on what
> legacy holders could do on their web site.  That said, I believe
> more than a few legacy holders when they came in to ask for additional
> resources had their legacy resources listed as well, all covered
> by a single RSA.

For a legacy resource holder who did not need additional resources there
was no visible process until last fall. A year ago, I looked for such a
process on the ARIN web site and was unable to find one. I'd like to
think that my rants last summer about that lack helped motivate the
creation of the current process and LRSA.

Keith