ACSP Consultation 2024.6: Consultation on Reallocation Control Features

Consultation Tracking Information

  • Requested By: Staff
  • Status: Closed
  • Comments Opened: Linked to Discussion Archives: 15 October 2024
  • Comments Closed: 30 October 2024
  • Suggestion Number: 2024.13

Consultation Description

ARIN is seeking feedback from the community on a suggested feature that would allow customers to manage the ability to control reallocations to their Organization (Org IDs) to protect against bad actors and reputational damage. We are seeking community input on the specific functionality and the priority that should be placed on developing this feature.

ARIN can add a feature in the Organization record management section of ARIN Online that will allow customers the ability to manage reallocations to individual Org IDs. This feature would only be manageable via ARIN Online but would apply to reallocations to specified Org IDs using either ARIN Online or programmatically with our Registration RESTful Service (Reg-RWS).

Additional questions for community consideration are:

  • If someone attempts to reallocate to an Org ID that does not have reallocation enabled, should they receive a notification that the organization does not accept reallocations?
  • Should the customer be notified of attempts to reallocate resources to their Org ID when reallocations are not enabled?
  • What priority should be placed on the development of this feature?

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 30 October. 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)

ARIN Actions

06 November 2024

From 15 to 30 October, ARIN held a Consultation seeking feedback from the community on a suggested feature that would allow customers to manage the ability to control reallocations to their Organization (Org IDs) to protect against bad actors and reputational damage.

After reviewing and discussing the comments received during the consultation, ARIN plans to prioritize this feature for future development. Based on feedback received, ARIN will establish a per Org ID feature to allow reallocations to their organization. This option will be deployed with default value of “off” and will require customers to explicitly enable it to continue receive reallocations to their Org ID. Placement on the development roadmap remains to be determined but is considered a high priority. Once this feature is deployed on a priority basis, ARIN will evaluate further enhancements as sought by the community.

ARIN thanks those who provided valuable feedback on this consultation. We rely on this input from our members and community to help steer the organization as we continue our mission in support of the operation and growth of the Internet.

20 November 2024

On 6 November we shared the planned path forward to develop a feature to give customers control of the ability to allow reallocations to their Org ID. Initially, we planned to deploy with the default value of “off”, which would require customers to explicitly enable this feature to continue to receive reallocations.

A new review of user data revealed that 255,535 of the 421,022 Org IDs (60.7%) have more than one reallocation/detailed reassignment. Because most users would need to manually reenable reallocations, we are changing our plan so that the reallocation feature default value of “on” which will allow reallocations/detailed reassignments. Customers will have the ability to switch this feature on and off as needed in the course of business.

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