[arin-ppml] Revised - ARIN-2021-8: Deprecation of the ‘Autonomous System Originations’ Field

[ARIN]

The following Draft Policy has been revised:

 

* ARIN-2021-8: Deprecation of the ‘Autonomous System Originations’ Field

 

Revised text is below and can be found at:

 

https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/2021_8/

 

You are encouraged to discuss all Draft Policies on PPML. The AC will evaluate the discussion 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/participate/policy/pdp/

 

Draft Policies and Proposals under discussion can be found at: 

https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/

 

Regards,

 

Sean Hopkins

Senior Policy Analyst

American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)

 

 

 

Draft Policy ARIN-2021-8: Deprecation of the ‘Autonomous System Originations’ Field

 

Problem Statement:

 

In the last two decades ARIN has developed multiple services which provide mechanisms for Internet Number Resource holders to publish information about their routing intentions.

 

The optional ‘OriginAS’ field was invented before RPKI existed in practice. At that time,ARIN’s Internet Routing Registry (IRR) followed a weak authorization model compared to available and in use today such as RPKI. The ‘OriginAS’ data was an improvement compared the other mechanisms that were available at that time.

 

However, there are some issues with consumption of the data in the OriginAS field:

 

Consuming the ‘OriginAS’ field in a high-scale automated pipeline is challenging. The consumer needs to enter into a ‘Bulk Whois Data’ agreement with ARIN, download a multiple-gigabytes XML file (which is only generated once a day), parse this XML, and then extract the OriginAS field. Querying objects one-by-one via the HTTPS interface does not scale well.

 

Policy Statement:

 

Remove Section 3.5 “Autonomous System Originations” of the NRPM in its entirety.

 

Timetable for Implementation: Two years after ARIN Board adoption.

 

Policy Term: Permanent

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