[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2024-1: Definition of Organization ID/Org ID - Abandonment Statement

[William Herrin]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM Reese, Gus <gReese at cogentco.com> wrote:
> I wanted to add a note regarding my decision to abandon this draft policy
> with the unanimous consensus of the Advisory Council.
>
> As primary shepherd of this policy I presented this at both ARIN 53 (draft) and
> ARIN 54 (recommended draft).  I had a conversations with a few fellow attendees
> at ARIN 54 about this policy and the concern that was raised to me is
> “Why are we codifying in policy what should be defined in ARIN business practices?”.
> In an event to salvage the policy after the in-room poll at ARIN 54 I worked
> with the policy author to refine the language and presented it to PPML in
> January 2025.  The feedback to those changes echoed what I received at ARIN 54.

Thanks Gus!

I just want to add a little bit of additional information.

For reference, this was the proposal to add a definition of "Org ID"
to the NRPM. The Org ID is a database label that ARIN uses in its
business practices to connect legal entities with their points of
contact and IP address registrations.

Some of the feedback we received on the AC was that it would be
helpful to avoid writing policy in terms of existing business practice
because ARIN wants to develop and adjust the business practices to
match the policy. If, for example, we want policy to apply to a group
of legal entities under common control instead of applying to
individual legal entities then that's what the policy should say,
allowing ARIN staff to develop the appropriate tooling and data
management practices to meet that need.

I also want to draw attention to NRPM sections 4.5 and 6.11 where the
text already uses the term "Organization ID." In light of the above,
should we look at adjustments to these sections?

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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William Herrin
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