[arin-ppml] Incorrect POC on resource records

[Steven Noble]

On Sep 26, 2012, at 5:05 AM, Martin Hannigan <hannigan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Small problem. I'm not making any judgements, just stating facts.
> Legacy addresses have value. Many believe that they are property.
> There is law around abandoned property. ARIN has a responsibility to
> make sure that this does not happen. Think of it like the equivalent
> to a bank deposit. Banks have a responsibility to insure the safety of
> your assets and so does ARIN. It's called stewardship. ARIN has a
> responsibility to re-unite legacy block owners with their block or
> ASN, not the other way around. And if they can't, then the State will
> be the final arbiter.

From my dealings with this subject I believe the way ARIN has handled legacy (and even post-ARIN) assets does not align with your interpretation of Stewardship.

Unlike banks (lets not go down the one off cases), ARIN takes actively used assets and tags them as abandoned or "No, Contact Known", requiring the original owner to go through hoops to regain control of the asset that they originally had.  This is claimed to be done to protect the original owner from forgery and asset theft.  Whatever the logic is, the fact is, it cannot be compared to any other system of protection that I know of.

I question the validity of modifying ORG records to say "No, Contact Known" with an ARIN created POC.  In some cases the real POC _is_ known but has not been sufficiently re-vetted by ARIN causing a real POC to be replaced with a ARIN created wrong POC which IMHO makes the ARIN database unreliable.  It's one thing to label the asset as un-verified but it's a whole other issue to replace the real ORG POCs with known wrong one such as CKN23-ARIN.

OrgTechHandle: CKN23-ARIN
OrgTechName:   No, Contact Known 
OrgTechPhone:  +1-800-555-1234
OrgTechEmail:  nobody at example.com
OrgTechRef:    http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/CKN23-ARIN

The TechName, TechPhone and TechEmail are all invalid, something that would (or should) not be tolerated from any ARIN customer, including ARIN themselves.