[164674] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN WHOIS for leads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Fri Jul 26 17:41:41 2013
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>, Ryan Pavely <paradox@nac.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 21:40:58 +0000
In-Reply-To: <5FE1FB6D43B8A647BBC821840C1AEA8B018793@ocsbs.ocosa.com>
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On Jul 26, 2013, at 7:42 AM, "Otis L. Surratt, Jr." <otis@ocosa.com> wrote:
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>> Why can't we implement a method where you have to be a registered, and
> paying, user/member with an AS number to be able to get IP whois
> 'contact' info? Sure list my name and company. But keep my email and
> phone number private. In fact show me >a web log of all registered
> users that looked me up.
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> This could be doable. But some minor details worked out or requirements.
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>> I doubt that will ever happen. =20
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> Have a little faith. ;-) If many providers wanted the feature, I'm sure
> ARIN would not have a problem implementing it.
ARIN will run the Whois database however you folks collectively want it run=
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Write up the change you seek (should be fairly easy), show rough consensus=
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in the community for the change (slightly more difficult task), and then,
(quoting patrick) "POOF!, things are changed." We know the process works;
for example, it followed recently and resulted in the addition of the abuse=
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point-of-contact.
Steven notes that _voting_ requires membership, and only ISPs are members=20
by default (not end-users/legacy holders)... This is definitely true,=20
but you actually don't need to be a member to suggest changes to the number=
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resource address policy or to make suggestions regarding ARIN operations. =
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(If you do feel the urgent need to vote for AC and Board members, support=20
ARIN's Internet Governance mission and help offset costs of ARIN's meetings=
,=20
feel free to add paid "ARIN Membership" for the $500/year. Details are
available here: <https://www.arin.net/about_us/membership/> Many end-user=
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with IP addresses just want the registry to work, and not embedding these=20
costs in the annual end-user fees are they are only be $100/year/resource.)
Thanks!
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN
