Consultation on ARIN Online Change Notifications

Posted: Monday, 26 August 2024

ARIN is seeking feedback from the community on a potential improvement, suggested by a community member, that ARIN create a modern mechanism that allows resource holders to be notified of any changes to resources or accounts they manage.

The stated benefit of this potential improvement is that it would allow greater control over valuable resources and increase the accuracy of ARIN’s database.

We have identified two options to create these notifications:

Email: The least “modern” option, but this would be consistent with other ARIN notifications, and mirrors what is available through the other Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). This would take approximately three months to develop once work is scheduled.

REST endpoint: ARIN can define a REST endpoint, and customers would have to develop/deploy and then provide us the URL to send notifications to. This would take approximately six months to develop once work is scheduled.

These options vary in complexity to develop and the level of effort required for customer adoption. We are interested in community feedback on the value of a change notification feature and thoughts on the possible delivery methods described or others you may suggest.

Please provide comments to arin-consult@arin.net. You can subscribe to this mailing list at https://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-consult.

This consultation will remain open until 5:00 PM ET on 9 September. ARIN seeks clear direction through community input, so your feedback is important.

Thank you for your continued support to improve ARIN’s services.

Regards,

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)