From info at arin.net Thu May 10 12:06:33 2012 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 12:06:33 -0400 Subject: [ARIN-Suggestions] Response to Suggestion 2012.3: ADD LANGUAGE TO STLS TOS/AUP Message-ID: <4FABE789.7090003@arin.net> ARIN has issued its final response to ACSP Suggestion 2012.3. The suggestion and response text are provided below. This suggestion remains is now closed and is available at: https://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/suggestions/2012-3.html Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) **** Suggestion: * Add (and begin enforcing) the following language to the STLS TOS/AUP: Any STLS participant (requestor, provider, or facilitator) found to be advertising their need/services/availability via unsolicited email validated by at least three complaints including copies of the email with full headers from three independent organizations shall have their use of STLS suspended and/or permanently revoked at the discretion of the ARIN CEO (suspension) or simple majority vote of the ARIN BoT (suspension or revocation). For a period of at least 6 months after this is added to the TOS/AUP, a first offense shall result in a warning referencing this update to the TOS/AUP. *Response:* We have carefully reviewed your suggestion internally, and with ARIN Counsel, and have concluded the proposal, if adopted, would improperly overstep ARIN's authority to regulate content and communications. Specifically, the proposal seeks to place limits on STLS facilitators contacting community members based on complaints that could be subjective and not objective and readily provable. ARIN has no ability to readily determine or confirm whether an email message reported to it is unsolicited or not, or how the address was obtained, and would therefore have to take action based on the subjective judgment of the reporting party. Any ARIN attempt to improperly limit these types of commercial communications is unlikely to be upheld based on the proposal you provided, and could even result in claims of ARIN legal liability for interfering with commercial speech. The subjective complaint criteria may also permit abuse: e.g. one facilitator complaining about another simply to limit their communications efforts. It might also convince brokers not to become STLS facilitators. As you know, ARIN has prohibited the use of Whois for marketing purposes and will investigate violations thereof regardless of the forum. If you believe that Whois contact information is being used for marketing purposes, please contact us immediately. We will continue to review such matters aggressively, consistent with that policy. As we gain more experience with such communications we will continue to consider whether existing practices to curb abuse need to be tweaked. Suggestion 2012.3 is now closed. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From info at arin.net Mon May 21 15:06:12 2012 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 15:06:12 -0400 Subject: [ARIN-Suggestions] Response to Suggestion 2012.4 - Street Address Requirement Message-ID: <4FBA9224.70103@arin.net> ARIN has issued its initial response to ACSP Suggestion 2012.4. The suggestion and response text are provided below. This suggestion is now closed and is available at: https://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/suggestions/2012-4.html Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) **** Suggestion: * Street Addresses for Registered Organizations should not be Post Office Boxes. ** *Response:* After years of doing business with a wide variety of organizations, ARIN has found that there are many legitimate businesses who use Post Office Boxes as their official mailing address. We have had no technically compelling reason to disallow this and in fact, have heard of many valid reasons to allow the use of PO Boxes from a variety of our customers who use them. We did a search through the ARIN database and found the following data relating to the use of PO Boxes: Currently, there are a total of 35,102 Org IDs with direct registrations. 2,450 of them or seven percent have a PO Box specified in the street address field. Of the 35,102 total organizations registered, 4,162 of them are ARIN's direct subscriber members. 444 of them or 11 percent of the members have a PO Box specified in the street address field. Therefore, unless there is some compelling reason that ARIN should not accept a PO Box as an organization's official mailing address, ARIN will continue to allow the use of PO boxes. Thank you for participating in the ARIN Consultation and Suggestion Process. This suggestion is now closed. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From info at arin.net Tue May 22 12:40:56 2012 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 12:40:56 -0400 Subject: [ARIN-Suggestions] Response to Suggestion 2012.25 - BULK BILLING MANAGEMENT Message-ID: <4FBBC198.8060803@arin.net> ARIN has issued its initial response to ACSP Suggestion 2012.5. The suggestion and response text are provided below. This suggestion remains open and is available at: https://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/suggestions/2012-5.html Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) **** Suggestion: * Thank you for implementing most of the billing enhancements requested in my previous suggestion (ACSP 2011.16). I would like to offer the following additional suggested enhancements to facilitate bulk management of billing records for ARIN ORGs: On the list of ORG IDs for Billing Info page, show also next to each ORG the current billing status and, if applicable, amount due. Add a new report (like the Associations Report) to obtain the invoice history and account status for all linked ORGs. Provide a mechanism for updating the billing information across a group of ORGs at one time without having to enter the information separately for each ORG. These changes will make it easier for those who are responsible for managing ARIN resources for multiple ORGs to have simpler and easier access to the billing information for those entities. Making billing management easier means faster and more efficient payments to ARIN. *Response:* Thanks for your thoughtful and positive suggestion. We plan on adding it to the list of projects awaiting prioritization: https://www.arin.net/features/#tbd Note that the suggestion will remain open. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From info at arin.net Thu May 24 13:54:29 2012 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 13:54:29 -0400 Subject: [ARIN-Suggestions] New ASCP Suggestion 2012.10 - PUBLISH NRPM IN PLAIN TEXT Message-ID: <4FBE75D5.2080706@arin.net> A new suggestion was received through the ACSP, and was assigned number 2012.10 upon receipt of confirmation.The suggestion text is provided below. This suggestion remains open and is available at: https://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/suggestions/2012-10.html ARIN will issue an initial response within 10 business days. Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) **** Suggestion: * ARIN should, in addition to the current forms, publish the NRPM in plain text. There is a long history of plain text publication on the internet and all RFCs are still published in plain text. This format facilitates use of a number of available tools for comparing revisions and proposed policies against existing text which cannot be used so easily with HTML or PDF versions. ** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From info at arin.net Tue May 29 17:56:29 2012 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 17:56:29 -0400 Subject: [ARIN-Suggestions] Response to Suggestion 2012.9 - IPV6 FEE REDUCTION Message-ID: <4FC5460D.3090800@arin.net> ARIN has issued its initial response to ACSP Suggestion 2012.9. The suggestion and response text are provided below. This suggestion remains open and is available at: https://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/suggestions/2012-9.html Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) **** Suggestion: * I suggest that ARIN make a temporary fee reduction for initial IPv6 assignments (to end-users). Some possibilities are a $1,250 reduction for one or two years or make the initial IPv6 assignments free for a year and then half price for a year. That would do two things: First, it lowers a potential barrier to IPv6 deployment in the enterprise, pure cost of assignment. Second, it puts a touch of urgency on initial IPv6 requests: "Hey boss, we have to at least get our assignment this year if we don't want to be forced to pay later especially if coordinated with officer attestation of IPv4 exhaustion ** *Response:* Thank you for your suggestion numbered 2012.9 upon confirmed receipt, requesting that ARIN make a temporary fee reduction for initial IPv6 assignments. This suggestion will be forwarded to ARIN's Financial Committee (FinCom) for consideration and subsequent recommendation to the ARIN Board of Trustees. The ARIN Board of Trustees will be discussing fees at their August 2012 workshop, at which time this suggestion will be considered. ARIN will provide you an update from either the FinCom's and/or the ARIN Board's consideration of this matter. We thank you for participating in the ARIN Consultation and Suggestion Process. This suggestion will remain open pending feedback. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From info at arin.net Wed May 30 13:43:40 2012 From: info at arin.net (ARIN) Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 13:43:40 -0400 Subject: [ARIN-Suggestions] Response to Suggestion 2012.8 - OFFICER ATTESTATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Message-ID: <4FC65C4C.8090506@arin.net> ARIN has issued its initial response to ACSP Suggestion 2012.8. The suggestion and response text are provided below. This suggestion is now closed and is available at: https://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/suggestions/2012-8.html Regards, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) **** Suggestion: * I suggest that the officer attestation of accuracy already required for every request of address space be broadened in the case of an IPv4-only applicant (an applicant requesting IPv4 who does not have a previous IPv6 assignment/allocation) to include acknowledgement of IPv4 exhaustion and IPv6 requirements. It should include specific acknowledgement of facts like the state of IPv4 free pools (IANA empty, ARIN approaching exhaustion, etc) and the IETF published best practice that all nodes require both IPv4 and IPv6 capabilities (RFC 6540 - IPv6 Support Required for All IP-Capable Nodes), and other similar facts. ** *Response: * Thank you for your suggestion numbered 2012.8 upon confirmed receipt. Just so that you are aware, ARIN has been sending a message very similar to the one you have suggested in all of the initial responses we send back to our IPv4 requestors. Interestingly enough, the majority of requestors are reading this and responding back to ARIN. Unfortunately, many of the responses say that although they are aware of the impending IPv4 depletion, they just aren't ready to deploy IPv6 in their networks for a variety of reasons. It would be good to get this message out to not only the people who run the network, but also to the people who are responsible for running the company. Therefore, ARIN will add this same message to all of our officer attestations as you have suggested, starting immediately. Thank you for participating in the ARIN Consultation and Suggestion Process. This suggestion is now closed. ** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: