[arin-ppml] Privacy of ARIN registry data (was: Re: Reclamation of Number Resources)

[John Curran]

> On 16 Jul 2022, at 7:31 AM, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:
> ...
> As I have stated at some length, I *do not* agree with that when it comes
> to identifying the name, location and other contact details about the
> business (and/or the natural person) that is the member, and when it comes
> to identifying the names and full contact information of any and all
> officers, directors, shareholders, and/or legal representatives of any
> given member that are known to ARIN.  All of that information for *all*
> members should *already* be out on the table, and public, totally independent
> of any cases of "fishy facts”.

Ronald - 

To be clear, ARIN has the full organization name and its address publicly visible in the ARIN registry. 
We used to encourage organizations to use entries for their administrative and technical contact which 
consisted of actual (natural) people (including their name/address/email/phone) but no longer do so 
because it is unclear that there is specific and legitimate purpose for doing so.   Organizations can 
continue to use natural people for their contacts if they choose (as opposed to organizational role 
accounts), but bear the burden of obtaining the consent of the affected individuals and taking on the 
responsible for the ongoing accurate maintenance of such data. 

If you wish the ARIN registry to obtain and/or publish “the names and full contact information of any 
and all officers, directors, shareholders, and/or legal representatives of any given member”, you would 
need to propose a policy that clearly notes the necessary purpose for the collection and processing for 
this information, and have the ARIN community concur and adopt said policy.  Absent such a policy, 
what you seek would represent a fairly significant departure from what are becoming commonly 
accepted principles for personal data privacy and processing of personally identifiable information. 

Thanks,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers