[arin-ppml] Policy question

[Steve Noble]

It's an interesting subject.  It must rely on what ARIN defines authorized as.

If the object is protected by an email address, the person with the
email address would be assumed to be authorized.  If protected by PGP,
MD5 or CRYPT-PW, then the same thing would apply.  If someone steals
or fakes one of those objects, then that would be an issue between the
company it was stolen from and the person who stole it (i.e. the
authorized person would just ask ARIN to reverse the change).

If ARIN means by hacking the database (literally), then that would
certainly be a issue that they would deal with but that would not
affect a company who is authorized to modify the object.

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Jeffrey Lyon
<jeffrey.lyon at blacklotus.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette
> <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:
>>
>> Is this statement of policy still active and in effect?
>>
>>    https://www.arin.net/announcements/2003/20031014.html
>>
>> I am particularly curious about the policy specified in the final sentence.
>>
>> I am also curious to know if there have ever been any actual instances of
>> prosecution of parties responsible for "unauthorized changes to the ARIN
>> database", either criminal or civil.
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>
> There certainly have. We had one about a month ago on a /22 we
> acquired in an acquisition and ARIN's official response (from their
> legal department) was too bad, get a lawyer. So right now we're
> wasting 5 figures to get a court order for something they could have
> easily fixed.
>
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