An update on policy changes that are no longer under discussion, because they have been adopted by the ARIN Board and implemented by ARIN staff. While these policies will not be discussed at ARIN XXIX, they are important to understand for two reasons. First, they have altered the ARIN Number Resource Policy Manual (NRPM) which may affect your next interaction with ARIN. Second, they provide some background and history on the current policy debates. You may be able to glean a sense of where the ARIN community’s focus is (or at least has most recently been) by understanding the policy changes which have made it through to adoption following the previous PPM.
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 [...]
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 [...]
I previously wrote briefly about this policy proposal created by Ted Mittelstaedt and myself but I have a bit more to share before it goes up for discussion this week at ARIN XXV. One of the primary reasons for this is that under the relatively new Policy Development Process (PDP) at ARIN, policy proposals are [...]
I find myself behind the ball again when it comes to posting info here on my blog. In the last part of 2009, I authored / co-authored and submitted two policy proposals for consideration to be included in the ARIN NRPM. As you may recall, my previous (and first) attempt at crafting policy was an [...]
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