Community Consultation - Daily Publication of IP Addresses Issued and Returned

ARIN would like to consult the community on the merits of
the second 
part of Suggestion 2008-2 [excerpt below, full suggestion at
bottom]:

"In addition, ARIN should publish a report of addresses
returned, and 
addresses issued, in the form of a mailing list (with daily
email) and 
an RSS feed. This will only contain allocations/assignments
made 
directly by ARIN or address blocks returned to ARIN's free
pool. The 
intent is that RBL operators can subscribe to such a feed
and keep their 
own lists clean."

Although there is some merit in allowing the community
prompt visibility 
to both the IP blocks being returned to ARIN's available
pool of 
addresses and the IP blocks being issued by ARIN to the
community, we 
also see this as a potential target for abuse. Specifically,
certain 
parties may take the opportunity to use and announce IP
addresses from 
these ranges without having the administrative authority to
do so.  To 
that end, there are two questions we like to ask the
community:

1) Does the community think that the merits of this proposal
outweigh 
the potential for abuse?

2) If the merits do outweigh the abuse, what sorts of
suggestions do you 
have to mitigate potential for abuse?

Please submit your feedback to the consultarin.net.
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Discussion on consultarin.net will close at 5:00 PM EDT 10
April. 
Depending upon the discussion, ARIN may decide to conduct a
poll on the 
topic during the following week. Only subscribers on the 
consultarin.net list when the poll opens will be eligible to
participate.

The ARIN Consultation and Suggestion Process documentation
is available at:
http
://www.arin.net/about_us/corp_docs/acsp.html

We welcome community-wide participation.  Please address any
process 
questions to infoarin.net.

Regards,

Member Services
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)

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2008.2
Submitted 01-17-2008 05:39:14
ARIN should track all RBLs, DUNS and similar IP address
blacklists.
Then, when an address block is re-issued to another
organization or 
returned from an organization, ARIN should check these
lists. If 
addresses from the re-issued block are found on one of the
lists, then 
ARIN should attempt to inform the list maintainer.

In addition, ARIN should publish a report of addresses
returned, and 
addresses issued, in the form of a mailing list (with daily
email) and 
an RSS feed. This will only contain allocations/assignments
made 
directly by ARIN or address blocks returned to ARIN's free
pool. The 
intent is that RBL operators can subscribe to such a feed
and keep their 
own lists clean.


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