<div dir="ltr"><div><div><br><br></div>Confusing. Anyone ever hear of ARIN locking people out of the online application for an invalidated POC? With no way to automatically address things like employee departures or other errors typically made by provider assigned address this seems like its over the top and contrary to an accurate whois. It would be easier to simply validate the bad data than to go through the operationally expensive efforts to fix it.<br>
<br></div><div>How does this work ARIN?<br><br><br></div><div><h4>3.6 Annual Whois POC Validation</h4>
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<h5><a name="three61" id="three61"></a>3.6.1 Method of Annual Verification</h5>
<p>During ARIN's annual Whois POC validation, an email will be sent to
every POC in the Whois database. Each POC will have a maximum of 60 days
to respond with an affirmative that their Whois contact information is
correct and complete. Unresponsive POC email addresses shall be marked
as such in the database. If ARIN staff deems a POC to be completely and
permanently abandoned or otherwise illegitimate, the POC record shall be
marked invalid. ARIN will maintain, and make readily available to the
community, a current list of number resources with no valid POC; this
data will be subject to the current bulk Whois policy</p></div><br></div></div>