[ARIN-Suggestions] Suggestion 2025.8 is now closed

[ARIN]

A new response from ARIN has been posted for ACSP Suggestion 2025.8: Make Commit Messages to the NRPM Gitlab More Informative and this suggestion is now closed. You may find the original suggestion and the response from ARIN below.
 
Regards,
 
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
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ACSP Suggestion 2025.8: Make Commit Messages to the NRPM Gitlab More Informative
https://www.arin.net/participate/community/acsp/suggestions/2025/2025-08/
 
Author: Adair Thaxton   
Submitted On: 30 October 2025

Description: Make commit messages to the NRPM Gitlab more informative
 
Value to Community:
 
I have been pointed to the NRPM in Gitlab as a way to track historical changes to the NRPM. However, the commit messages (https://bitbucket.org/arin-rir/number-resource-policy-manual/commits/branch/master) do not tell me what changes are actually being made, only what version is current.

If we intend for the Gitlab to be able to provide historical context, it’s currently not really easy to find that information. For example, during discussion of Draft Policy ARIN-2025-6, I went to the Gitlab to see the history of the phrase “provider assignment unit” in section 6.5.2.1. I checked the commit messages to see if I could tell when this section was added or updated, but the sections that have been changed in each commit are not listed.

Please consider the community’s ability to track changes to specific policies when committing changes to NRPM. Adding specific policies that are being reflected in commits would help too, but specifying policy changes would be very helpful.
 
Status: Closed

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ARIN Response:
 
Thank you for your suggestion, numbered 2025.8 upon confirmed receipt, asking that ARIN make the commit messages to the Number Resource Policy Manual (NRPM) in GitLab more informative.

We made several improvements to our publication process for Number Resource Policy Manual (NRPM) version 2026.1. Changes included:

- Adding an individual commit for each policy included in a new NRPM version that is clearly labeled with the policy name.
- Adding detail to the Changelog on the website to clarify which policy effected a change on each updated section of the NRPM.

Additionally, we plan to add direct links to the web version of new policies to each commit when publishing future NRPM versions.

Because the implemented and planned improvements satisfy your request, we are closing this suggestion. Thank you for participating in ARIN’s Consultation and Suggestion process.