[arin-ppml] ARIN-prop-180 ISP Private Reassignment

[Martin Hannigan]

I support this with the caveat that I think we can improve it further
by eliminating the SWIP requirement for ISP's altogether. The logic of
why it exists in the first place is stale.

Best,

-M<


On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:32 AM, ARIN <info at arin.net> wrote:
> ARIN-prop-180  ISP Private Reassignment
>
> ARIN received the following policy proposal.
>
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> On Thursday, August 9, 2012 10:52 AM, Yi Chu wrote
>
> Template: ARIN-POLICY-PROPOSAL-TEMPLATE-2.0
>
>    1. Policy Proposal Name:  ISP private reassignment
>    2. Proposal Originator
>          1. name: Yi Chu
>          2. e-mail: yi.chu at sprint.com
>          3. telephone: +1-703-592-4850
>          4. organization: Sprint
>    3. Proposal Version: 1
>    4. Date: 2012-08-09
>    5. Proposal type: new
>    6. Policy term: permanent
>    7. Policy statement:
>                 NRPM 4.2.3.7.1.1 and 6.5.5.1.1 ISP private reassignment
>                 ISP has the option to register a reassignment as private.  A
> private reassignment is not visible on the public whois database.  Private
> reassignment is used in calculation of ISP utilization.  By register a
> reassignment as private, the ISP takes responsibility as POC by means of the
> direct allocation (parent of the reassigned address block) from ARIN that is
> publically registered in the whois database.
>
>    8. Rationale:
>                 Some ISP's customers wish to keep their reassignment
> private.  This can be for security reasons.  It can also be that the
> customer does not have the staff or know-how to manage their network.  They
> in term outsource the management of their network to the upstream ISP.  By
> not having their reassignemnt record showing in public, the whois record of
> the parent ISP block is a truer representation of the reality.  It make shte
> whois database more accurate and cleaner.
>    9. Timetable for implementation: immediate
>
>
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