Draft Policy ARIN-2014-6: Remove 7.1

[ARIN]

On 24 January 2014 the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) accepted 
"ARIN-prop-198 Remove 7.1" as a Draft Policy.

Draft Policy ARIN-2014-6 is below and can be found at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2014_6.html

You are encouraged to discuss the merits and your concerns of Draft 
Policy 2014-6 on the Public Policy Mailing List.

The AC will evaluate the discussion in order to assess the conformance 
of this draft policy with ARIN's Principles of Internet Number Resource 
Policy as stated in the PDP. Specifically, these principles are:

  * Enabling Fair and Impartial Number Resource Administration
  * Technically Sound
  * Supported by the Community

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https://www.arin.net/policy/pdp.html

Draft Policies and Proposals under discussion can be found at:
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Regards,

Communications and Member Services
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)


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Draft Policy ARIN-2014-6
Remove 7.1

Date: 29 January 2014

Problem Statement:

7.1 attempts to assert rules on rDNS management at ARIN. It fails to do 
so because it only addresses in-addr.arpa (missing equally important 
rules in ip6.arpa). It's also not based on any RFC; it's an arbitrary 
decision made by ARIN technical staff. We should remove this text from 
policy, as it represents operational practice rather than ARIN number 
policy.

Policy statement:

Remove 7.1

Comments:
a.Timetable for implementation: Immediate
b.Anything else:

7.1. Maintaining IN-ADDRs

All ISPs receiving one or more distinct /16 CIDR blocks of IP addresses 
from ARIN will be responsible for maintaining all IN-ADDR.ARPA domain 
records for their respective customers. For blocks smaller than /16, and 
for the segment of larger blocks  smaller than /16, ARIN can maintain 
IN-ADDRs.