Joe Greco wrote:
Forwarded message:
Subject: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests
From: ARIN Registration Services <[email protected]>
Hello,
With the approaching depletion of the IPv4 address free pool, the
ARIN Board of Trustees has directed ARIN staff to take additional
steps to ensure the legitimacy of all IPv4 address space requests.
Beginning 18 May 2009, ARIN will require that all applications for
IPv4 address space include an attestation of accuracy from an officer
of the organization. For more information on this requirement, please
see:
https://www.arin.net/resources/agreements/officer_attest.html
Whenever a request for IPv4 resources is received, ARIN will ask in
its initial reply for the name and contact information of an officer
of the organization who will be able to attest to the validity of the
information provided to ARIN.
At the point a request is ready to be approved, ARIN will send a summary
of the request (via e-mail) to the officer with a cc: to the requesting
POC (Tech or Admin) and ask the officer to attest to the validity of the
information provided to ARIN. The summary will provide a brief overview
of the request and an explanation of the required attestation. ARIN will
include the original request template and any other relevant information
the requestor provided. Once ARIN receives the attestation from the
officer, the request can be approved. Attestation may also be provided
via fax or postal mail.
For further assistance, contact ARIN's Registration Services Help Desk
via e-mail to [email protected] or telephone at +1.703.227.0660.
Let me see if I can understand this.
We're running out of IPv4 space.
Knowing that blatant lying about IP space justifications has been an
ongoing game in the community, ARIN has decided to "do something" about
it.
So now they're going to require an attestation. Which means that they
are going to require an "officer" to "attest" to the validity of the
information.
So the "officer," most likely not being a technical person, is going to
contact ... probably the same people who made the request, ask them if
they need the space. Right?
And why would the answer be any different, now?
... JG
So I wonder if this applies to some of the players who have recently
gotten a /19 for dubious purposes and are so large that an "officer" of
the company may be 1500 miles away. It's a sad state of affairs. Are
they going to hold the "officer" liable if the request is not legit?
Manny
