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

[ARIN]

The following has been revised:

* Draft Policy ARIN-2017-12: POC Notification and Validation Upon 
Reassignment or Reallocation

Revised text is below and can be found at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2017_12.html

You are encouraged to discuss all Draft Policies on PPML. The AC will 
evaluate the discussion in order to assess the conformance of this draft 
policy with ARIN's Principles of Internet number resource policy as 
stated in the Policy Development Process (PDP). Specifically, these 
principles are:

* Enabling Fair and Impartial Number Resource Administration
* Technically Sound
* Supported by the Community

The PDP can be found at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/pdp.html

Draft Policies and Proposals under discussion can be found at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/index.html

Regards,

Sean Hopkins
Policy Analyst
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)



Draft Policy ARIN-2017-12: POC Notification and Validation Upon 
Reassignment or Reallocation

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 linked to at least one valid POC object.  If there is no valid POC 
object 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.

Comments:

Timetable for implementation: Immediate