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Re: ARIN IRR Authentication (was: Re: AltDB?)
From: John Curran <jcurran () arin net>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:13:28 +0000
On Jan 29, 2011, at 10:50 PM, Jeff Wheeler wrote:
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:00 PM, John Curran <jcurran () arin net> wrote:Based on the ARIN's IRR authentication thread a couple of weeks ago, there were suggestions placed into ARIN's ACSP process for changes to ARIN's IRR system. ARIN has looked at the integration issues involved and has scheduled an upgrade to the IRR system that will accept PGP and CRYPT-PW authentication as well as implementing notification support for both the mnt-nfy and notify fields by the end of August 2011.I'm glad to see that a decision was made to improve the ARIN IRR, rather than stick to status-quo or abandon it.
Good to hear.
However, this response is essentially what most folks I spoke with off-list imagined: You have an immediate operational security problem which could cause service impact to ARIN members and others relying on the ARIN IRR database, and fixing it by allowing passwords or PGP to be used is not very hard.
I appreciate your estimate of the effort required to address this problem, but we're not doing this as a completely separate system but with the intention of having some level of integration with our existing ARIN Online system in the future. While this may take more effort, and was not in our original 2011 budget, we have been able to add it to plan with development to begin later in the year.
As I have stated on this list, I believe ARIN is not organizationally capable of handling operational issues.
You've asserted this belief in prior messages (as well as noting that "No one is forced to use ARIN IRR") If the IRR does not meet your needs during this period, I would recommend using one of the many alternative routing registries available. In any case, I'd like to thank you again for raising the concern about lack of IRR authentication, as it was instrumental in bringing this matter to resolution. Thanks! /John John Curran President and CEO ARIN
Current thread:
- Re: AltDB?, (continued)
- Re: AltDB? John Curran (Jan 10)
- Re: AltDB? Jon Lewis (Jan 10)
- Re: AltDB? Doug Barton (Jan 10)
- Re: AltDB? John Curran (Jan 11)
- RE: AltDB? Koch, Andrew (Jan 11)
- Re: AltDB? John Curran (Jan 11)
- ARIN IRR Authentication (was: Re: AltDB?) John Curran (Jan 27)
- Re: ARIN IRR Authentication (was: Re: AltDB?) Randy Bush (Jan 28)
- Re: ARIN IRR Authentication (was: Re: AltDB?) John Curran (Jan 28)
- Re: ARIN IRR Authentication (was: Re: AltDB?) Jeff Wheeler (Jan 29)
- Re: ARIN IRR Authentication (was: Re: AltDB?) John Curran (Jan 30)
- Re: AltDB? Robert Bonomi (Jan 08)
- Re: AltDB? Randy Bush (Jan 08)
- Re: AltDB? Robert Bonomi (Jan 08)
- Re: AltDB? Randy Bush (Jan 08)
- Re: AltDB? Owen DeLong (Jan 08)
- Re: AltDB? David Conrad (Jan 08)
- Re: AltDB? David Conrad (Jan 08)
- Re: AltDB? Paul Vixie (Jan 08)
- arin and ops fora (was Re: AltDB?) John Curran (Jan 09)
- Re: arin and ops fora (was Re: AltDB?) Jack Bates (Jan 10)