As a member of the ARIN Advisory Council (AC), I have to stay up to date on all of the goings on in the world of ARIN policy development (that’s kind of the point of the AC). These policy changes affect many people but are fairly hard to keep track of for most (most engineers [...]
There are folks who have, in the past, cried wolf with regard to IPv4 free pool depletion and the need for IPv6 adoption. Different people had different reasons for doing so and some were likely ulterior. Since then, all of the reputable folks focusing on IPv6 deployment have removed these alarmists and distanced themselves from [...]
I just received an email via the arin-ppml (public policy mailing list) announcing a new version of the ARIN Number Resource Policy Manual (NRPM); NRPM 2010.2. This particular version is significant to me in that it implements a policy that I co-authored: 2008-7: Identify Invalid WHOIS POC’s. The ARIN announcement lays out all the relevant [...]