The ARIN Advisory Council (AC) met on 18 April 2018 and decided to send
the following Recommended Draft Policy to Last Call:
ARIN-2017-3: Update to NRPM 3.6: Annual Whois POC Validation
The AC issued the following statement regarding changes made prior to
Last Call:
"After receiving clear support from the community during discussions at
ARIN 41 and on PPML, the Advisory Council has moved Recommended Draft
Policy 2017-3: Update to NPRM 3.6: Annual Whois POC Validation to last
call with (i) an editorial change to the title, changing NPRM to NRPM,
and (ii) the implementation direction that annual validation emails
continue to be sent to POCs associated with reassignments until such a
time that POC validation upon reassignment is in place for at least one
year."
Feedback is encouraged during the Last Call period. All comments should
be provided to the Public Policy Mailing List. Last Call will expire on
7 May 2018.
The Recommended Draft Policy text is below and available at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/
The ARIN Policy Development Process is available at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/pdp.html
Regards,
Sean Hopkins
Policy Analyst
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
Recommended Draft Policy ARIN-2017-3: Update to NRPM 3.6: Annual Whois
POC Validation
AC Assessment of Conformance with the Principles of Internet Number
Resource Policy:
This proposal is technically sound and enables fair and impartial number
policy as it encourages more accurate Whois data collection by
restricting organizations without at least one validated Admin or Tech
POC from using ARIN Online services outside of payment and contact
update functionalities.
Problem Statement:
Many of the Point of Contacts listed in ARIN's public Whois database
contain out-of-date and inaccurate contact information.
Policy statement:
Current Text:
3.6 Annual Whois POC Validation
3.6.1 Method of Annual Verification
During ARIN's annual Whois POC validation, an email will be sent to
every POC in the Whois database. Each POC will have a maximum of 60 days
to respond with an affirmative that their Whois contact information is
correct and complete. Unresponsive POC email addresses shall be marked
as such in the database. If ARIN staff deems a POC to be completely and
permanently abandoned or otherwise illegitimate, the POC record shall be
marked invalid. ARIN will maintain, and make readily available to the
community, a current list of number resources with no valid POC; this
data will be subject to the current bulk Whois policy.
Proposed Revised Text:
3.6 Annual Validation of ARIN's Public Whois Point of Contact Data
3.6.1 Annual POC Verification
ARIN will perform an annual verification of specific Points of Contact
registered in the public Whois using the criteria and procedures
outlined in sections 3.6.2, 3.6.3, and 3.6.4.
3.6.2 Specified Public Whois Points of Contact for Verification
Each of the following Points of Contact are to be verified annually, and
will be referred to as Point of Contact or POC throughout this policy,
and should be understood to be both organization and resource POCs:
- Admin
- Tech
- NOC
- Abuse
3.6.3 Organizations Covered by this Policy
This policy applies to every Organization that has a direct assignment,
direct allocation, or AS number from ARIN (or one of its predecessor
registries) or a reallocation from an upstream ISP. This includes but is
not limited to upstream ISPs and their downstream ISP customers (as
defined by NRPM 2.5 and 2.6), but not reassignments made to their
downstream end user customers.
3.6.4 Procedure for Verification
An annual email notification will be sent to each of the Points of
Contact outlined in section 3.6.2 on an annual basis. Each Point of
Contact will have up to sixty (60) days from the date of the
notification in which to respond with an affirmative that their Whois
contact information is correct and complete or to submit new data to
correct and complete it. If after careful analysis, ARIN staff deems a
POC to be completely and permanently abandoned or otherwise
illegitimate, the POC record shall be marked invalid in Whois.
3.6.5 Non-Responsive Point of Contact Records
An invalid POC is restricted to payment and contact update functionality
within ARIN Online. As a result, an organization without any valid POCs
will be unable to access further functionalities within ARIN Online
until at least one Admin or Tech POC validates that their information is
accurate or modifies a POC to contain accurate information.
Comments:
Timetable for implementation: to be based upon discussions with ARIN's
staff.
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