[dbwg] Re: [ppml] Bogons etc...
Michael.Dillon at radianz.com
Michael.Dillon at radianz.com
Thu Jan 22 11:56:10 EST 2004
>We have been down these roads before. There are liability concerns that
>ARIN must address regardless of the protocol used to distribute this
>information. Nobody on this list aside from ARIN legal staff (if they
are
>on the list) are qualified to render an authoritative opinion with
respect
>to ARIN's legal exposure. As an ARIN AC member, I will bring this issue
up
>(generally) at the next AC meeting and if there is sufficient consensus
>among AC members we will request a legal opinion.
Will ARIN be shutting down their whois servers and web
servers until they can get an authoritative legal opinion?
>Now, on to operational considerations. Does anybody remember ORBS? They
>were DoS'ed off the 'net by spammers. If ARIN starts running this type
of
>service, there will be a _significant_ operational cost increase taken on
>by ARIN, because the DoS attacks will come, and they may come with such a
>volume as to completely render all of ARIN offline.
Correct me if I'm wrong but ARIN staff have already done a lot
of engineering work to deal with DoS issues on the existing
whois service. In any case, if ARIN implements this using a
caching friendly protocol like LDAP or DNS then this is a non-issue
because the information will not all be served from one place.
>At any rate, I also think that this should be moved to the DBWG mailing
>list, as this really is an operational issue that specifically deals with
>the ARIN database.
There is still a policy issue that belongs here.
--Michael Dillon
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