[arin-ppml] LAST CALL - Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2017-12: POC Notification and Validation Upon Reassignment or Reallocation

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I also support this.

Albert Erdmann
Network Administrator
Paradise On Line Inc.


On Tue, 23 Apr 2019, John Santos wrote:

> Support
>
> On 4/23/2019 8:54 AM, Brian Jones wrote:
>> I support this policy and as indicated from remotely at ARIN 43 anything to 
>> help keep the assignment contacts up to date and accurate is a good thing.
>> 
>> --
>> Brian
>> Virginia Tech
>> bjones at vt.edu <mailto:bjones at vt.edu>
>> 
>>> On Apr 15, 2019, at 2:04 PM, ARIN <info at arin.net <mailto:info at arin.net>> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> The ARIN Advisory Council (AC) met on 10 April 2019 and decided to send 
>>> the following Recommended Draft Policy to Last Call:
>>> 
>>> ARIN-2017-12: POC Notification and Validation Upon Reassignment or 
>>> Reallocation
>>> 
>>> Feedback is encouraged during the Last Call period. All comments should be 
>>> provided to the Public Policy Mailing List. Last Call will expire on 29 
>>> April 2019.
>>> 
>>> The Recommended Draft Policy text is below and available at:
>>> https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/
>>> 
>>> The ARIN Policy Development Process is available at:
>>> https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/pdp/
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Sean Hopkins
>>> Policy Analyst
>>> American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2017-12: POC Notification and Validation 
>>> Upon Reassignment or Reallocation
>>> 
>>> AC Assessment of Conformance with the Principles of Internet Number 
>>> Resource Policy:
>>> 
>>> This recommended draft policy: (1) enables fair and impartial number 
>>> administration as it ensures that ARIN has the means to communicate with 
>>> organizations receiving reallocations or detailed reassignments, and does 
>>> so in a clear, complete, concise and unambiguous manner; (2) is 
>>> technically sound in that it supports ARIN’s ability to maintain the 
>>> unique registration of Internet number resources; and (3) has community 
>>> support.
>>> 
>>> Problem Statement:
>>> 
>>> Some ISPs assign individuals to be POCs for reassigned blocks without 
>>> consultation of the individual they are inserting into Whois. For example, 
>>> during the reassignment/reallocation process, some large ISPs 
>>> automatically create POCs from their customer’s order form. This process 
>>> is automated for many ISPs and therefore the resulting POCs are not 
>>> validated prior to being created in the ARIN Whois database. This creates 
>>> unknowing POCs that have no idea what Whois is or even who ARIN is at the 
>>> time they receive the annual POC validation email. It can also create 
>>> multiple POCs per email address causing that same person to receive a 
>>> multitude of POC Validation emails each year.
>>> 
>>> This policy proposal seeks to prevent the situation where a POC is 
>>> unwittingly and unintentionally inserted into Whois. Doing so will reduce 
>>> the significant amount of time that ARIN staff spend fielding phone calls 
>>> from POCs who have no idea they are in Whois.
>>> 
>>> The proposal will improve the overall POC validation situation, by 
>>> ensuring that all reallocation or detailed reassignment requests are 
>>> related to a pre-existing receiving organization with at least one valid 
>>> POC object, and by requesting that any other existing invalid POC objects 
>>> are validated.
>>> 
>>> Policy statement:
>>> 
>>> Insert one new section into NRPM 3:
>>> 
>>> 3.7 POC Notification and Validation Upon Reassignment or Reallocation
>>> 
>>> When a request for reallocation or detailed reassignment is made to ARIN, 
>>> the receiving organization must already be in the ARIN database and 
>>> associated with at least one validated POC object. If there are no 
>>> validated POC objects associated with the receiving organization, ARIN 
>>> shall reject the request.
>>> 
>>> In addition to notifying the requester, ARIN will also notify, via email, 
>>> all POCs associated with the receiving organization, whether the request 
>>> was successful or not, and will request validation of any invalid POC 
>>> objects associated with the receiving organization.
>>> 
>>> Note: Simple reassignments are made without any linkage to an organization 
>>> or POC objects in the ARIN database.
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> -- 
> John Santos
> Evans Griffiths & Hart, Inc.
> 781-861-0670 ext 539
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