NTAC Peering Working Group

["Spears, Christopher M." <>]

FYI, neglected to send this last month..  If you peer with AS11537, and would 
like to know if ARIN Resources advertised by your AS have no valid POCs, feel 
free to ping me.



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> From: "Spears, Christopher M." 
> <>
> Subject: Re: [NTAC] The Importance of Maintaining Accurate Whois Data
> Date: April 12, 2016 at 5:05:01 PM EDT
> To: David Farmer 
> <>
> Cc: Quilt Discuss 
> <>,
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> ARIN RWhois now reports if an individual POC has not been validated, so 
> it’s fairly easy to determine if you (as a POC) need to do something.
> 
> ARIN also generates a report of Resources without _any_ validated contacts. 
>   This is something I run against our tables monthly, as well as the 
> Internet2 tables (for resources in the ARIN region).   There’s a fair 
> amount of stale POC data for resources in our community.   Another logical 
> conclusion of having outdated - or flat out wrong - information is 
> revocation of resources.   You can’t pay the bill if you don’t get it.   I 
> come across this, too, though to a far lesser extent.
> 
> -Chris
> 
> 
> On Apr 11, 2016, at 12:14 PM, David Farmer 
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
>> ARIN released an excellent article about the Importance of Maintaining 
>> Accurate Whois Data.  
>> 
>> http://teamarin.net/2016/04/11/the-importance-of-maintaining-accurate-whois-data/
>> 
>> With IPv4 run out, there is an increased financial motive for fraudulently 
>> transfer of Internet Number Resources, especially IPv4 addresses, and it's 
>> a possible DOS attack vector too.  The best defence is ensuring your 
>> Internet Number Resources have accurate Whois Data.  The easiest way to do 
>> this is to respond to the Annual POC Validation you receive from ARIN.  If 
>> you don't remember receiving and responding to this in the last year then 
>> it's probably a good idea to double check the registration information for 
>> all your internet number resources.     
>> 
>> -- 
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>> David Farmer               
>> Email:
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