On 4 Oct 2018, at 9:29 AM, Michael Sinatra 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
The change is that ARIN is (or will soon be) no longer accepting DNSSEC DS 
records for reverse DNS for those resources that are not covered by RSA or 
LRSA.  This is a change from current operational practice, and it effectively 
disables the *community's* ability to validate reverse DNS for these holders.
...
1. That ARIN staff reverse this decision, at least for a period of time for the 
larger community to assess the negative value to the Internet community as a 
whole.  And, if there was community consultation and I missed it, please let me 
know and please register my objection to the change in policy at this time.

Michael -

It’s an excellent issue, and ppml is a reasonable place to raise it (even if 
not strictly a matter of number resource policy.)

Back in 2016, we rolled out a single converged registration services agreement 
(i.e. the "RSA: Version 12.0 / LRSA: Version 4.0”).   This RSA/LRSA contained 
many important changes that were requested from the community, including 
clarifying that the agreement is only applicable to "Included Number Resources" 
(i.e. the Internet number resources pursuant to the agreement, not any other 
number resources that parties may hold), providing uniform service terms and 
conditions for all customers receiving services from ARIN, elaborating on the 
definition of ARIN's services that are covered by the agreement, providing a 
more balanced agreement with respect to the terms previously seen as favorable 
to ARIN, and requiring that RSA changes (other than necessary to conform to 
law) be subject to membership approval.

As part of that rollout, we also made clear our stance regarding what services 
legacy resource holders get from ARIN absent any agreement – specifically, 
legacy resource holders get the same services that they received upon ARIN’s 
formation.  This mirrors the decision that was made at ARIN’s formation 20 
years ago to not require existing resource holders to “join ARIN", but instead 
to continue to provide the same services they were receiving without need for 
any fee or agreement. With the 2016 RSA/LRSA rollout, we made clear that legacy 
resource holders who wish to utilize new services would require entry into a 
registration services agreement with ARIN, just as with all other customers.

Now, regarding the “recent change” you reported – As it turns out, ARIN had 
been inconsistent in our approach to legacy holders seeking DNSSEC services 
over the years, and as a result there are about two dozen organizations that 
are legacy resource holders who are receiving DNSSEC services today from ARIN 
absent any registration services agreement.  Earlier this year, I directed the 
ARIN staff to reach out to these organizations to bring them under service 
agreement so as to be equitable with all parties receiving ARIN services.  I 
promptly received feedback from some of those affected organizations that they 
did not see that as an appropriate change, and so we are now only asking that 
each of them to review the revised RSA to see if it is acceptable for their 
use, and we are not going be turning off their existing DNSSEC services 
regardless of that outcome.

Thanks!
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN


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