[arin-ppml] Clarify /29 assignment identification requirement

[William Herrin]

On 4/28/12, Jon Lewis <jlewis at lewis.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Apr 2012, William Herrin wrote:
>> Your always-on customers are always consuming an IP address. You know
>> which ones are connected to which DHCP pools and you keep a record of
>> which one attaches to which address so that you can deal with network
>> abuse reports. Right?
>>
>> Why should you have the privilege of keeping those customer identities
>> secret from ARIN when someone using a the more direct method of
>> assigning a specific /32 to a customer does not?
>
> Because in one case your staff has assigned an IP to a customer.  In the
> other, an IP was automatically assigned to a customer, and it might stick
> with them for a few seconds to a few months.  You have no idea how long,
> so your people make no record of the assignment.  For abuse tracking, you
> would look at your network gear and/or its logs (RADIUS logs, etc.) to map
> an IP to customer.

When a hosting company assigns addresses to a newly provisioned VPS
its every bit as automatic. And every bit as ephemeral: the customer
may cancel in hours, days or years just as your DSL customer will hold
an address (not necessarily that particular one) for the same period
of time. Yet they're supposed to report that customer's identity in
support of their address request while your DSL customer skates by
anonymously?

And is your DSL pool at all sticky, waiting a little while for the
same MAC to present again before releasing the address?

Double standard my friend.

Regards,
Bill Herrin



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