Re: NEVERMIND! (was: ARIN Fraud Reporting Form ... )

[John Curran <jcurran () arin net>]

On Oct 3, 2010, at 3:51 AM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:

> So while I was looking at the WHOIS records for the set of blocks that were
> (apparently now past tense) being 'jacked by AS14202 earlier today (Saturday)
> I happened to come across the following annotation in one of the relevant
> IP block WHOIS records (but _only_ one):
>
>  Comment:        The information for this network has been reported to
>  Comment:        be invalid. ARIN has attempted to obtain updated data, but has
>  Comment:        been unsuccessful. To provide current contact information,
>  Comment:        please e-mail hostmaster () arin net.
>
> YESSS!  This is exactly the kind of thing I have been asking for!
>
> But more to the point, this is the exact kind of thing that (very bizzarely)
> John Curran just told me that he would accept as, in effect, and enhancement
> request... AS IF IT DIDN'T ALREADY EXIST, or as if ARIN wasn't already doing
> this exact thing.  (See the WHOIS for NET-204-89-0-0-1, which, as we speak,
> contains the above helpful annotation.)

While I knew that we were building the list (as required by policy) 
of netblocks without any valid contact info, I was not aware that 
the entries would also be nicely annotated in WHOIS as shown above. 

Congrats, Ron, whatever your favorite holiday is, it comes early 
this year.

/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN