[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2016-8: Removal of Indirect POC Validation Requirement

[Seth Mattinen]

On 12/21/16 7:16 AM, Job Snijders wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 07:07:22AM -0800, Seth Mattinen wrote:
>> On 12/20/16 10:09 AM, ARIN wrote:
>>> 2) ARIN has previously reported that POC validation to reassignments
>>> causes tremendous work for the staff. It receives many angry phone calls
>>> and emails about the POC validation process. I believe the ARIN staff
>>> should be focused on POC validation efforts for directly issued
>>> resources, as that has more value to internet operations and law
>>> enforcement than end-user POC information.
>>
>> A detective that called me several weeks ago about a reassignment
>> certainly did care, so this statement is inaccurate IMO.
>
> I appreciate you bringing this to the table, but this is just one
> anecdotal data point, and it doesn't show that the validation was of
> value.
>


It does mean I will oppose this policy though.

~Seth