On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 1:09 PM John Curran <jcur...@arin.net> wrote:
> On 14 Aug 2019, at 11:15 AM, Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> > wrote: > > > > On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 02:42:09 -0000, John Curran said: > > > >> You might want want to ask them why they are now a problem when they > weren’t > >> before (Also worth noting that many of these ISP's own contracts with > their > >> customers have rather similar indemnification clauses.) > > > > Actually, it's probably ARIN that should be doing the asking, and seeing > if > > they can change the wording and/or rephrase the issue to allay concerns. > > > > It sounds to me like ARIN's *intent* was "if you get sued by your > customers because > > you screw the pooch on deployment, it's your screw-up to clean up and > not our > > problem". Or at least I *hope* that was the intent (see next paragraph) > > That is indeed the intent - please deploy routing validation using best > practices, so that you & your customers don’t suffer any adverse impact > when ARIN's repository is not available. > > Or, move all your number resources to a subsidiary in the AP region, pay membership fees to APNIC instead of ARIN, and use their trust anchor instead of ARIN's. BTW, since all 5 RIRs have certificates signing the whole IP address space, it really makes no difference. Rubens