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Most of the ARIN mailing lists are open to the public. To use these lists, all participants must adhere to the ARIN Participants Expected Standards of Behavior. Please review the Standards of Behavior before using. Publicly viewable archives of our mailing lists are available on the ARIN website, with links in the table below for each list.

An RSS feed of announcements to the ARIN website is also available.

How To Subscribe or Unsubscribe

To subscribe to any of the lists below, simply send an email to [listname]-subscribe@arin.net from the account you would like to subscribe from and include the word “subscribe” in the BODY of your email. For example, to subscribe to the Public Policy Mailing List (PPML), send an email with the word “subscribe” in the body to arin-ppml-subscribe@arin.net.

To unsubscribe from any ARIN Mailing List, send an email to [listname]-unsubscribe@arin.net from your subscribed email account, with the word “unsubscribe” in the BODY of the message. For example, to unsubscribe to the ARIN Announce Mailing List, send an email with the word “unsubscribe” in the BODY to arin-announce-unsubscribe@arin.net.

ARIN Mailing Lists

ARIN Announce

arin-announce@arin.net

Used by ARIN staff to provide timely information on important issues affecting ARIN members and the Internet community. Topics include ARIN Elections, meetings, policy updates, service notifications, training opportunities, and other ARIN events.

Public Policy Mailing List

arin-ppml@arin.net

Open to the general public. Provides a forum to raise and discuss policy-related ideas and issues surrounding existing and proposed ARIN policies. PPML discussion is an intrinsic part of ARIN’s Policy Development Process, which details how proposed policies are handled.

General Members

general-members@arin.net

Open to individuals from ARIN General Member organizations. This list is provided to create a forum for the discussion of topics relevant to ARIN’s governance.

ARIN Issued

arin-issued@arin.net

Read-only list open to the public. It is a daily report of IPv4, IPv6, and Autonomous System Number (ASN) resources issued directly by ARIN, and resources returned to ARIN’s free pool.

Technical Discussions

arin-tech-discuss@arin.net

Open to the public. Provided to inform customers of updates to ARIN’s operational test and evaluation environment (OT&E), and to allow for discussion related to customer-built tools on top of ARIN’s services such as Reg-RWS, DNSSEC, RDAP, the IRR, and the OT&E.

Consultations

arin-consult@arin.net

Open to the public. Used in conjunction with the ACSP to gather comments, this is open for comments on any active consultation.

Suggestions

arin-suggestions@arin.net

Read-only list open to the public. Used by ARIN staff to provide notification to community of new ARIN Consultation and Suggestion Process (ACSP) suggestions and ARIN responses.

Global Mailing Lists - ASO

The Address Supporting Organization maintains a number of mailing lists of its own and posts information for global mailing lists hosted by RIRs. See the ASO website for more information and subscription information.

Archives

HTML versions of mailing list archives are available for each list through the links above. Full text archives of all ARIN mailing lists are available at: ftp://ftp.arin.net/pub/mailing_lists/

Historical Mailing List Archives
List Archive Last Post
ARIN-discuss 4 August 2021
Services Working Group 19 January 2018
IANA Transition 9 June 2016
ARIN Whois-RWS Pilot 05 September 2010
ARIN RPKI Pilot 09 July 2009
ARIN RESTful Provisioning Interfaces N/A
IPv6 Working Group 1 March 2005
Database Implementation Working Group 30 December 2004
Routing Table Measurement and Analysis 6 July 2004
NRR-Blueprint 10 September 2003
IP Allocations Policies Working Group 26 March 2003
Community Learning and Education Working Group (CLEW) 7 November 2002
Virtual Webhosting Committee 31 July 2001
NAIPR 3 November 1997

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