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Most of the ARIN mailing lists are open to the public. To use these lists, all participants must adhere to ARIN’s Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). Please review the AUP 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

Read-only list open to the general public. Used by ARIN staff to provide timely information on important issues affecting ARIN members and the Internet community. The issues include ARIN elections, meetings, policy updates, training opportunities, and other ARIN events. We encourage anyone with an interest in Internet operations in the ARIN region to subscribe.

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. The PPML list is an intrinsic part of ARIN’s Policy Development Process, which details how proposed policies are handled.

Discussion on PPML can cover a variety of policy related topics, and ARIN encourages free discussion. ARIN announcements to the PPML about policy proposals or draft policies include the proposal number or draft policy number in the subject field. Please retain the policy number in the subject line when you make comments about specific proposals or draft policies. Your post or reply should open with a statement of support or nonsupport for the topic to allow others to follow discussions of interest more easily and make your position clear.

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 general 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 general public. Provided for those interested in providing technical feedback to ARIN or seeking information from others in the community who are working with technical aspects of ARIN’s services, such as Reg-RWS, DNSSEC, RDAP, the IRR, and the OT&E.

Consultations

arin-consult@arin.net

Open to the general public. Used in conjunction with the ARIN Consultation and Suggestion Process (ACSP) to gather comments, this is open for comments on any active consultation or suggestion. For those who would like to submit suggestions to ARIN, please review the ACSP and submit questions using the ACSP Suggestion Form.

Suggestions

arin-suggestions@arin.net

Read-only list open to the general public. Used by ARIN staff to provide notification to community of new ACSP suggestions and ARIN responses. We encourage anyone with an interest in ARIN services and operations to subscribe.

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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