[113748] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (manolo)
Mon Apr 20 21:20:27 2009
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:20:10 -0400
From: manolo <mhernand1@comcast.net>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200904202339.n3KNdleL042511@aurora.sol.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Joe Greco wrote:
> Forwarded message:
>
>> Subject: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests
>> From: ARIN Registration Services <do-not-reply@arin.net>
>>
>> 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 hostmaster@arin.net 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
