<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><B> 1. Policy Proposal Name:</B> Documentation of the X.509 Authentication Method</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><B> 2. Authors:</B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> 1. name: Paul Vixie</DIV><DIV> 2. email: <A href="mailto:paul@vix.com">paul@vix.com</A></DIV><DIV> 3. telephone: +1 650 423 1300</DIV><DIV> 4. organization: Internet Systems Consortium</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> 1. name: Mark Kosters</DIV><DIV> 2. email: <A href="mailto:markk@verisignlabs.com">markk@verisignlabs.com</A></DIV><DIV> 3. telephone: +1 703 948 3200</DIV><DIV> 4. organization: Verisign</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> 1. name: Chris Morrow</DIV><DIV> 2. email: <A href="mailto:christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com">christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com</A></DIV><DIV> 3. telephone: +1 703 886 3823</DIV><DIV> 4. organization: Verizon Business/UUnet</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> 1. name: Jared Mauch</DIV><DIV> 2. email: <A href="mailto:jmauch@us.ntt.net">jmauch@us.ntt.net</A></DIV><DIV> 3. telephone: +1 214 915 1356</DIV><DIV> 4. organization: NTT/Verio</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> 1. name: Bill Woodcock</DIV><DIV> 2. email: <A href="mailto:woody@pch.net">woody@pch.net</A></DIV><DIV> 3. telephone: +1 415 831 3100</DIV><DIV> 4. organization: Packet Clearing House</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><B> 3. Proposal Version:</B> 1</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><B> 4. Submission Date:</B> Tuesday, October 24, 2006</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><B> 5. Proposal type:</B> New</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><B> 6. Policy term</B>: Permanent</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><B> 7. Policy statement:</B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> DELETION FROM THE NRPM</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> 3.5.3 X.509</DIV><DIV> This section intentionally left blank.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> ADDITION TO THE NRPM</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> 3.5.3 X.509</DIV><DIV> ARIN accepts X.509-signed transactions as authentic</DIV><DIV> communication from authorized Points of Contact. POCs</DIV><DIV> may denote their records "crypt-auth," subsequent to</DIV><DIV> which unsigned communications shall not be deemed</DIV><DIV> authentic with regard to those records.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><B> 8. Rationale:</B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> This policy complements the previously-proposed "Reinstatement of</DIV><DIV> PGP Authentication Method" which introduces section 3.5 to the</DIV><DIV> NRPM. Section 3.5 relates the existence of three authentication</DIV><DIV> methods. Two of those, mail-from and X.509, were preexisting but</DIV><DIV> not documented within the NRPM.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV> This policy proposal simply seeks to provide brief documentation</DIV><DIV> of the existence of the X.509 authentication method. Because the</DIV><DIV> specific wording of the documentation may be subject to debate,</DIV><DIV> and is in no way interdependent upon the documentation of the</DIV><DIV> other two methods, it is being proposed in a separate policy, so</DIV><DIV> that consensus may be more easily reached.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><B> 9. Timetable for implementation:</B> Immediate</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><B> 10. Meeting presenter:</B> Bill Woodcock</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>END OF TEMPLATE</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>