ARIN-prop-247: Require New POC Validation Upon Reassignment [Archived]

Date: 10/17/2017

Proposal Originator: David Huberman

Problem Statement:

Some large ISPs assign individuals to be POCs for reassigned blocks without consultation of the individual they are inserting into Whois. One year later, the POC is contacted by ARIN as part of Annual POC Validation policies. The POC often does not know who ARIN is, what Whois is, and why they are in Whois.

This policy proposal seeks to improve the situation where a POC is unwittingly and unwantingly inserted into Whois.

It also seeks to mitigate the significant amount of time that ARIN staff reports that they spend fielding phone calls from POCs who have no idea they are in Whois.

Finally, it is hopeful that this proposal will improve the overall POC validation situation, by forcing ISPs and customers to work together to insert proper information into Whois at the time of sub-delegation.

Policy statement:

Insert a new section into NRPM 3:

3.7 New POC Validation Upon Sub-delegation

When an ISP submits a valid reallocation or detailed reassignment request to ARIN which would result in a new POC object being created, ARIN must (before otherwise approving the request) contact the new POC by email for validation. ARIN’s notification will, at a minimum, notify the POC of:

• the information about the organization submitting the record; and
• the resource(s) to which the POC is being attached; and
• the organization(s) to which the POC is being attached.

If the POC validates the request, the request shall be accepted by ARIN and the new objects inserted into Whois. If the POC does not validate the request within 10 days, ARIN must reject the request.

Comments:

Timetable for implementation: Immediate