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

Thu Apr 25 12:26:08 EDT 2019

HI David,

I support the policy as written.

In my case, my organization (TELUS) implemented an automated mechanism for reporting reassignments through the Whois-RWS that only automatically registers as simple reassignments.  Any customer who wishes to link a reassignment to their OrgID will be supported with some manual intervention.  This works well for our organization and our downstream customers, and I would recommend a similar implementation to anyone considering an implementation of Whois-RWS integration, particularly in light of 2017-12.

To answer your question of timing David, immediate is acceptable to me, though as stated here I am lucky enough not to have any changes to make as a result of the policy.  It may be best to seek out known examples where perhaps this problem statement originated and seek to understand the impact from those organizations involved.

Regards,
Matthew Wilder

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

There have been relatively few comments on this policy on PPML since the text was revised in late January. Although, it seems to have been well supported at the Barbados meeting.

ARIN 43 transcript;
https://www.arin.net/vault/participate/meetings/reports/ARIN_43/ppm1_transcript.html#anchor_9

ARIN 43 Video for presentation;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxfZ128IqMU

ARIN 43 Presentation Slide deck;
https://www.arin.net/vault/participate/meetings/reports/ARIN_43/PDF/PPM/2017_12_intro.pdf
https://www.arin.net/vault/participate/meetings/reports/ARIN_43/PDF/PPM/2017_12.pdf

It is therefore particularly important for anyone who objects to this policy or thinks this policy will create issues for their organization to speak up during this clast call period.

Even if you support the policy, comments regarding the proper timeline for implementation are of interest.  How long will your organization need to adapt to these changes?

All comments are appreciated.

Thank you.

David Farmer

On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 1:04 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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