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Roman"">ARIN has issued its initial response to ACSP
Suggestion 2015.2. The suggestion and response text are provided
below. This suggestion remains open and is available at: </span><span
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Roman""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/suggestions/2015-2.html">https://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/suggestions/2015-2.html</a></span><span
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</span><span
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</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 style="font-family:
Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman";color:black">Description: Support HSTS where
technically feasible.<br>
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Submitter has noticed that <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.arin.net">www.arin.net</a> has for some time been
https-only, with attempts to connect via http issued a 301
redirect to the https site.<br>
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An improvement upon this practice would be to support HTTP
Strict Transport Security (RFC 6797). At a high level, HSTS
informs capable browsers [*] via an additional header in each
HTTPS session that for a certain period of time (typically
months to one year) they should never try to connect to the site
via unencrypted HTTP. This is an additional layer of protection
against man in the middle attacks.<br>
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[*] At this writing, HSTS is widely supported (Chrome, Firefox,
Opera, Safari, and upcoming in IE for Windows 10).<br>
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Value to Community: Increased protection against spoofing/MITM
attacks</span><span
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Thank you for submitting your suggestion, numbered 2015.2, on the
topic of HSTS support for the ARIN website.<br>
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We will explore HSTS support to our website. Provided there are no
adverse effects in testing, we will be rolling this improvement out
within the next 60 days. Thank you again for suggesting this
improvement. This ACSP item will remain open until the work is
completed.<span style="font-family:Helvetica;
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