[arin-ppml] 2600::/12 LOA

[Heather Schiller]

The suggested text restricting LOA is:  "ARIN will not issue a Letter of
Authority (LOA) to route a research prefix unless the allocation is
properly registered in whois."

The text does not specifically restrict ARIN from issuing an LOA
altogether, it requires that the resource be registered in whois.  I think
the text allows them to issue LOA for research where necessary and
legitimate.  It should not impede them from issuing LOA in any other
circumstance (though, outside of research, I don't imagine they get many
requests for LOA)   Can you foresee a circumstance where it would be
appropriate for ARIN to issue an LOA for something *not* registered in
whois?   Do you think the current text impedes them from issuing necessary
and legitimate LOA's?

--Heather


On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Martin Hannigan <hannigan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Martin Hannigan <hannigan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 4:52 PM, John Curran <jcurran at arin.net> wrote:
> >> On Mar 31, 2014, at 3:11 PM, Martin Hannigan <hannigan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 5:00 AM, John Curran <jcurran at arin.net> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> NRPM 11 was designed for parties requesting allocations from ARIN for
> >>>> research purposes; not ARIN checking the quality/integrity of new
> block
> >>>> received from IANA.  Given the recent occurance, I believe it is
> prudent
> >>>> for ARIN to utilize NRPM 11 going forward for purposes of this quality
> >>>> checking, as it makes visible the organization doing the
> testing/making
> >>>> use of the space, including duration of the activity and research
> nature,
> >>>> as well as reaffirming the expected uniqueness requirement.
> >>>
> >>> If I understand this correctly, Matthew suggested that an update to
> >>> Section 11 would be more useful? If that's the case I agree. It would
> >>> require a few, simple, modifications.
> >>
> >> I think his suggestion to make use of NRPM 11 for this purpose is quite
> >> excellent.   It was not process that we used in the past, but shall be
> >> done that way going forward.   To the extent that the community wishes
> >> to improve NRPM 11 policy text for this purpose of address space
> testing,
> >> that is also welcome.
> >>
> >>> Why would ARIN ever need to issue an LOA if whatever is distributed is
> >>> in the registry? All the LOA responsibilities if even needed at that
> >>> point would fall to the registrant.
> >>
> >> Agreed; that is the major benefit of taking an "NRPM 11" approach to
> address
> >> space testing - ARIN stays focused on being a registry and leaves the
> use of
> >> address space to registrants.  Since registrants are unique for a given
> address
> >> block, we also preempt multiple parties with potentially conflict plans
> on the
> >> use (or routing) of any given portion of address space.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Yes, I agree. This is the preferable route.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > -M<
>
>
> To add to this, it appears that we can condense most of the hand
> waving down to a modification in Section 11.4 that adds to the end of
> the paragraph "All resource assignments will be registered in the ARIN
> WHOIS database and in a manner not conflicting with any other
> registrations". Or any other language that would accomplish the same
> thing.
>
> We ought not to specifically restrict ARIN from writing an LOA. There
> may be a circumstance where it is necessary and fully legitimate.
> Admittedly, the instances where it would be needed would be corner
> cases, but operators in the AP region, for example, are very strict
> and I've had some strange reasons for writing LOA for my own prefixes.
> It may also interfere with the encumbrance testing that John
> mentioned. I suspect there are also some other tricky authority
> questions.
>
> This sounds like a legitimate error to me so this should be enough to
> instill a codified message that we want registrations and self
> service. Anything else needs more attention.
>
> Best,
>
> -M<
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