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Roman"">ARIN has issued its initial response to ACSP
Suggestion 2012.13. The suggestion and response text are
provided below. This suggestion is now closed and is available
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New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/suggestions/2012-13.html">https://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/suggestions/2012-13.html</a></span><span
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</span><span
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Roman"">Regards,</span><span style="font-family:
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</span><span
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Roman"">Communications and Member Services</span><span
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New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman"">American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)</span><span
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Suggestion: </span></b><span
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New Roman";color:black">Where ARIN must evaluate a LIR's
IPv4 address utilization in order to perform any duty, ARIN
should not compel the production of customer identities for any
customer holding a total of less than 8 IPv4 addresses unless
all reasonable alternatives for verifying utilization have been
exhausted.<br>
(credit: Bill Herrin,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-ppml/2012-April/024550.html">http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-ppml/2012-April/024550.html</a>)</span><b><span
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New Roman";color:black">Response:</span></b><span
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Your suggestion that "ARIN should not compel the production of
customer identities for any customer holding a total of less than 8
IPv4 addresses unless all reasonable alternatives for verifying
utilization have been exhausted" contradicts existing policy
requirements.<br>
<br>
NRPM 4.2.2.1.2, states:<br>
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"For blocks smaller than /29 and for internal space, ISPs should
provide utilization data either via SWIP or RWhois server or by
providing detailed utilization information."<br>
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NRPM 4.2.2.2.1, states:<br>
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"Utilization for blocks smaller than /29 can be documented via SWIP
or RWhois server or by providing detailed utilization information."<br>
<br>
These policy references allow ARIN to require the same detailed
utilization information for /29 and smaller reassignments as it does
for the larger reassignments that are required by policy to be
swipped. So essentially this detailed utilization information is
equivalent to what would be published via SWIP/RWhois.<br>
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Because there is a current policy requirement for ISPs to provide
customer-level detail in policy, and this is very useful information
for ARIN to have when assessing an organization's need for
additional address space, we believe that policy supersedes
suggestions, and that the customer-level detail is a necessary
requirement. Therefore, ARIN will not be implementing your
suggestion as written.<br>
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