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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 [...]

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In the second half of 2010 the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) started sending emails to all Points Of Contact (POCs) registered in the ARIN Whois database. Since then, I have been seeing more and more chatter about these emails – including increased traffic here on my blog. Because I am at least partially [...]

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I have been asked to present draft policy 2010-14 to the ARIN Government Working Group (AGWG) during their meeting tomorrow morning. The proposed policy formally codifies many best current practices for IPv4 reassignment registration and fills in many holes in current IPv6 WHOIS policy as well.

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[UPDATE 27-SEP-2011: Draft Policy ARIN-2010-14 has been implemented in ARIN NRPM 2011.4!] The History I first submitted policy proposal 109 in early February. After discussion and feedback on PPML, I revised the draft twice; ending up with v3 in early March. Apparently, that revision was submitted too late to make it onto the draft policy [...]

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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 [...]

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On Sunday (18-April-2010) I presented my policy proposal “Standardize IP Reassignment Registration Requirements” during the open policy hour here at ARIN XXV. Some of my slides pack a lot of text into them and therefor were probably not able to be read on screen in real time – for that reason, I have posted the [...]

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ARIN XXV is fast approaching, which means that it is time for me to catch up on PPML posts and organize my thoughts surrounding the current proposals and impending issues. This is especially true for this meeting since I have a couple proposals of my own up for discussion at this meeting. Draft Policy 2010-5 [...]

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