<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Actually, staff would, in my opinion, have greater ability to remove<DIV>lame or partially lame delegations and still certainly is free to contact</DIV><DIV>lame server operators or resource holders to encourage them to do</DIV><DIV>the right thing.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Owen</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 12, 2007, at 11:40 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><SPAN class="044463218-12092007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">In cases where a policy must apply uniformly, it has to be official</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="044463218-12092007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">and not an internal staff guideline.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="044463218-12092007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="044463218-12092007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">The big problem with taking this out of the NRPM is that unless</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="044463218-12092007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">there's sanctions available to enforce correct DNS behavior, the</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="044463218-12092007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">staff can't do anything because all the non-compliant network </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="044463218-12092007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">operator has to do is say since it's not spelled out in the NRPM,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="044463218-12092007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">you can't do anything to me if I don't do it.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="044463218-12092007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="044463218-12092007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">At this point I'm personally not sure any changes need to be made</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="044463218-12092007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">at all. But clearly the OP has a problem and the purpose of this</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="044463218-12092007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">list and the policy process is essentially to present problems to</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="044463218-12092007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">the community and see what the response is.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="044463218-12092007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="044463218-12092007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Thus I think your proposal is as needed as Johns. If the membership</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="044463218-12092007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">really doesen't want the RIR to bother with this, they will vote your</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="044463218-12092007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">policy in. If not, they will vote John's policy in (whenever it's submitted)</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="044463218-12092007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">So let's see what they want to do.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="044463218-12092007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="044463218-12092007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Ted</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir="ltr" style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class="OutlookMessageHeader" dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Tahoma" size="2">-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Owen DeLong [<A href="mailto:owen@delong.com">mailto:owen@delong.com</A>]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, September 11, 2007 8:52 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Ted Mittelstaedt<BR><B>Cc:</B> John Von Essen; Public Policy Mailing List<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [ppml] Policy Proposal -- Eliminate Lame Server policy<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>Ted, <DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="WHITE-SPACE: pre"></SPAN>I believe you miss the point of my proposal. While I do believe that</DIV> <DIV>ARIN has a role to play in applying the clue bat to lame or partially lame</DIV> <DIV>ISPs and addressing John's issue, my point is that it belongs in operational</DIV> <DIV>guidelines to ARIN staff and not in the NRPM.</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="WHITE-SPACE: pre"></SPAN>My proposal talks about what I think belongs in the NRPM and is</DIV> <DIV>not a direct expression of how I feel about what ARIN staff should or</DIV> <DIV>should not be doing with respect to this particular issue. I would fully</DIV> <DIV>support an ACSP recommendation that ARIN address all IN-ADDR</DIV> <DIV>lameness whether complete or not on any direct assignment. This will</DIV> <DIV>potentially require ARIN to examine as many as 255 zones in IPv4 for</DIV> <DIV>a single assignment.</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="WHITE-SPACE: pre"></SPAN>I would oppose any suggestion requiring ARIN to drill down</DIV> <DIV>to lame delegations made by the ISPs relating to reassignment or</DIV> <DIV>reallocations made by the ISP because of dramatically increasing</DIV> <DIV>workload for dramatically decreasing return on investment and</DIV> <DIV>because there is a limit to the extent to which I believe ARIN should</DIV> <DIV>engage in telling operators how to run their network (let alone their</DIV> <DIV>customers' networks).</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="WHITE-SPACE: pre"></SPAN>I will also oppose any policy regarding the operational and/or</DIV> <DIV>implementation details of lame delegations because I firmly believe</DIV> <DIV>this is not the role of the NRPM and should be addressed with</DIV> <DIV>operational procedures and recommendations rather than with</DIV> <DIV>number resource policies.</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>Owen</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV>On Sep 11, 2007, at 5:26 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><SPAN class="310071800-12092007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Yes John you are correct but the way things often work on this list is someone like Owen will</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="310071800-12092007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">submit a policy to remove something that shouldn't obviously be removed, the result of</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="310071800-12092007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">which will convert a bunch of fence sitters into proponents of keeping it.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="310071800-12092007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="310071800-12092007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">The list membership needs Owens "just kill it" proposal precisely to have something to</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="310071800-12092007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">vote down. A no vote commits the person voting no, to supporting </FONT></SPAN><FONT face="Arial"><FONT size="2"><SPAN class="310071800-12092007">the policy.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial"><FONT size="2"><SPAN class="310071800-12092007"></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial"><FONT size="2"><SPAN class="310071800-12092007">If Owens proposal is voted down, that will destroy all of the "it's not the RIR's responsibility</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial"><FONT size="2"><SPAN class="310071800-12092007">to enforce sanctions against bad nameserver operators" arguments, and we can move the discussion</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial"><FONT size="2"><SPAN class="310071800-12092007">to something productive of how to actually fix the problem.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial"><FONT size="2"><SPAN class="310071800-12092007"></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial"><FONT size="2"><SPAN class="310071800-12092007">Your proposal might be premature - you might find it better to campaign against Owens</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial"><FONT size="2"><SPAN class="310071800-12092007">proposal first.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="310071800-12092007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="310071800-12092007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Ted</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir="ltr" style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class="OutlookMessageHeader" dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT face="Tahoma" size="2">-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> <A href="mailto:ppml-bounces@arin.net">ppml-bounces@arin.net</A> [<A href="mailto:ppml-bounces@arin.net">mailto:ppml-bounces@arin.net</A>]<B>On Behalf Of </B>John Von Essen<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, September 11, 2007 4:55 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Public Policy Mailing List<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [ppml] Policy Proposal -- Eliminate Lame Server policy<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>I do plan to submit my proposal. My final comment on all of this is with regards to ARIN's stance on operational issues. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>I agree ARIN should be careful, but keep in mind ARIN does provide an operational function of reverse DNS authority delegation. Because ARIN engages in this very-real activity, policy must exist to cover its implementation, design, and overall operational health.</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>If ARIN just did AS numbers and IP allocation, and another organization did reverse delegation, say Network Solutions, then YES - ARIN should not get involved with operational issues of reverse DNS. But that fact is ARIN does do reverse DNS delegation. When I do a dig on an IP, I see alot of ARIN servers in the output!</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>-John</DIV> <DIV><BR> <DIV> <DIV>On Sep 11, 2007, at 7:21 PM, Azinger, Marla wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">I would like to see a proposal that is along the lines of clarifying in addition to Owens proposal to just take it away.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Hopefully we havnt scared John off and he will give a wack at it.</DIV> <DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 14px; MARGIN: 0px"><BR></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Cheers!</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Marla</DIV> <DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 14px; MARGIN: 0px"><BR></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">-----Original Message-----</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">From: <A href="mailto:ppml-bounces@arin.net">ppml-bounces@arin.net</A> [<A href="mailto:ppml-bounces@arin.net">mailto:ppml-bounces@arin.net</A>]On Behalf Of</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">William Herrin</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 3:32 PM</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">To: Owen DeLong</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Cc: Public Policy Mailing List</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Subject: Re: [ppml] Policy Proposal -- Eliminate Lame Server policy</DIV> <DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 14px; MARGIN: 0px"><BR></DIV> <DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 14px; MARGIN: 0px"><BR></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">On 9/11/07, Owen DeLong <<A href="mailto:owen@delong.com">owen@delong.com</A>> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">1.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Policy Proposal Name: Deprecate Lame Server Policy</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">7.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Policy statement:</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"></SPAN>Delete section 7 from the NRPM</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 14px; MARGIN: 0px"><BR></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Owen,</DIV> <DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 14px; MARGIN: 0px"><BR></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Are you sure this is the right way to move on this? If we're going to</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">call ISPs "Local Internet Registries," shouldn't we expect them to</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">behave as internet registries and do the things that internet</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">registries do, including reallocation and assignment of the RDNS</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">attached to every IP address?</DIV> <DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 14px; MARGIN: 0px"><BR></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Regards,</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Bill Herrin</DIV> <DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 14px; MARGIN: 0px"><BR></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">--<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">William D. 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