ARIN Announcements

On Tuesday, 22 April, from 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM ET, ARIN will be conducting maintenance on systems relating to billing functionality. During this period, ARIN customers may not be able to view, download, or pay invoices. All other publicly available services will remain available for the duration. Thank you for your patience and cooperation. Regards, Mark Kosters Chief Technology Officer ARIN

Do you have a project that needs funding, is noncommercial in nature, and benefits the Internet community within the ARIN service region? Apply now for a 2025 ARIN Community Grant. 2025 Grant Application The ARIN Community Grant Program provides financial grants in support of operational and research projects that improve the overall Internet industry and user environment, advancing ARIN’s mission and broadly benefiting the ARIN community within our region. Projects must fit into one or more of these four broad categories:

As a part of the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) system, the ARIN community has been called to contribute to the ongoing global multistakeholder discussion on the revision of ICP-2. The feedback received from the ARIN community during this contribution period will be provided to the Number Resource Organization Number Council (NRO NC) for their consideration during the revision process of the draft “Governance Document for the Recognition, Maintenance, and Derecognition of Regional Internet Registries”.

The NRO NC has published a draft version of a document that aims to update ICP-2: Criteria for Establishment of New Regional Internet Registries. This updated document is titled “Governance Document for the Recognition, Maintenance, and Derecognition of Regional Internet Registries” (RIR Governance Document) and can be viewed here. We now invite your input on this draft. Please make sure to share your feedback by Tuesday, 27 May 2025. Background Information In October 2023, the Number Resource Organization Executive Council (NRO EC) asked the NRO Number Council (NRO NC), that fulfils the role of the Address Supporting Organization Address Council (ASO AC), to establish and manage a process to update the Internet Coordination Policy (ICP-2): Criteria for Establishment of New Regional Internet Registries document. Modification of ICP-2 requires an open and transparent process to allow participation from across the global RIR and ICANN communities.

After the close of each fiscal year, ARIN staff compiles and publishes an annual report. These reports contain information about the activities of ARIN’s staff, Board of Trustees, and Advisory Council, as well as ARIN’s activities within the global Internet community. The 2024 ARIN Annual Report is now available for download at: https://www.arin.net/about/corporate/annual/reports/2024_annualreport.pdf The report includes: An overview of ARIN’s mission, services, and structure; Updates from the President and Chief Executive Officer and the ARIN Board of Trustees Chair; A summary of 2024 accomplishments from ARIN; Departmental highlights; An overview of ARIN’s Policy Development Process (PDP) and policy actions taken in 2024; Activity reports from the Board of Trustees, Advisory Council, and Number Resource Organization Number Council; A recap of the outreach and training events conducted in 2024; and Internet number resource statistics for 2024. The 2024 Auditor’s Report will be posted once it becomes available.

ARIN is seeking two volunteers to serve on the Nomination Committee (NomCom) to help recruit candidates for the Board of Trustees, Advisory Council, and Number Resource Organization Number Council (NRO NC). Terms for the NomCom are two years. The current members of the Nomination Committee are: Dan Alexander, Chair Peter Harrison, Trustee Chris Tacit, Trustee Dustin Moses, General Member representative Roman Tatarnikov, General Member representative Matthew Wilder, General Member representative Volunteers must be from an ARIN General Member organization in Good Standing and may not be a candidate in an ARIN Election while serving on the committee. Chosen representatives must include at least one and up to two actively serving Advisory Council members.

On Thursday, 3 April 2025, ARIN fulfilled 73 requests off the IPv4 Waiting List from the 63 IPv4 blocks listed on the IPv4 Addresses Cleared for Waiting List page: https://www.arin.net/resources/guide/ipv4/blocks_cleared/ Prior inferences about the reputation of these address blocks, causing these blocks to be placed on a blocklist, are most likely no longer valid. For more information about ARIN’s IPv4 Waiting List Availability Process, please see our blog post from the ARIN Blog:

As first announced in December 2024, ARIN has now retired the use of FTP protocol within our organization. All ARIN data previously available via the FTP protocol continues to be available over HTTP and HTTPS at the same file locations. ARIN has coordinated with the other Regional Internet Registries to ensure that the mirrors of the extended statistics data are available over HTTP and HTTPS. For more information on how to retrieve resources you may have previously accessed via the FTP protocol, read the recent post on the ARIN Blog.

ARIN is pleased to present the latest version of ARIN Online, including improvements, new features, and updates. Full release notes are included at the end of this message. Our work on this release has been completed, including the previously scheduled maintenance, and all ARIN systems are operating normally. We thank you for your patience. If you have additional questions, comments, or issues, please submit an Ask ARIN ticket using your ARIN Online account or contact the Registration Services Help Desk by phone Monday through Friday, 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM ET at +1.703.227.0660.

We are quickly approaching the ARIN 55 Public Policy and Members Meeting, being held on 27-30 April. If you are planning to join us in person in Charlotte, North Carolina, please note that Tuesday, 1 April, is the deadline for ARIN 55 attendees to receive the discounted hotel rate of US$239 plus tax at the Hilton Charlotte Uptown. We strongly encourage you to make your travel arrangements as soon as possible. If you haven’t registered to attend ARIN 55 yet, please visit https://arin.net/ARIN55 to register today.

On 29 March, from 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM ET, ARIN will conduct maintenance on ARIN systems. During this time, ARIN Online accounts will be inaccessible, and transactions submitted via the RESTful Provisioning service, the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) Up/Down service, or the RPKI Repository Publication Service will be rejected. ARIN Online accounts will be accessible when maintenance is completed. RESTful calls sent during the outage will not be queued and must be resubmitted after the maintenance period.

The ARIN Fellowship Program provides a specialized, interactive learning opportunity to individuals interested in Internet governance, number resource policy, and professional growth in the Internet industry. Twice a year, Fellows are selected ahead of an ARIN Public Policy and Members Meeting to engage with the community and attend the meeting. For this meeting, 10 Fellows will attend ARIN 55 in person while six will participate virtually, allowing for both in-person and remote engagement.

A new version of the ARIN Number Resource Policy Manual (NRPM) has been published on the ARIN website. NRPM version 2025.1 is effective 4 March 2025 and supersedes the previous version. At their meeting on 9 December 2024, the Board of Trustees adopted the following: ARIN-2022-12: Direct Assignment Language Update ARIN-2024-2: Whois Data Requirements Policy for Non-Personal Information ARIN-2024-9: Remove Outdated Carveout for Community Networks At their meeting on 14 January 2025, the Board of Trustees adopted the following:

This is the final reminder that ARIN will retire the use of FTP on 31 March 2025. ARIN has coordinated with the other Regional Internet Registries to ensure that the mirrors of the extended statistics data are available over HTTP and HTTPS. All ARIN data currently available via FTP will continue to be available over HTTP and HTTPS. For more information on how your organization can prepare for the retirement of FTP at ARIN, read the recent post on the ARIN Blog explaining how to retrieve resources you may have previously accessed via FTP.

This message is posted on behalf of the Number Resource Organization The Number Resource Organization Number Council* (NRO NC) has completed its qualitative analysis and summary of the community responses received to the questionnaire on the proposed principles to update ICP-2. The questionnaire was open from 8 October until 6 December 2024. During this window, we received 298 individual submissions from the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) communities. The summary and the raw data questionnaire are available here.

The ARIN office will be closed on Monday, 17 February, in observance of Presidents’ Day. ARIN’s office will reopen with normal operating hours on Tuesday, 18 February.

ARIN is committed to helping organizations get the most value out of their customer experience, which is why we provide in-person updates and support via our ARIN on the Road traveling workshop. Have questions about IPv6 resources? Wondering how your organization can deploy Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI)? Need help navigating ARIN Online? Get your questions answered at our March ARIN on the Road event in Raleigh, North Carolina. Register for ARIN on the Road Raleigh

As of 4 February 2025, ARIN has deprecated outdated versions of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) and is only using TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 protocols across all our services. Those deprecated protocols include TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1, and SSLv3, which were previously supported for publicly available services such as ARIN.net mail, Whois-RESTful Web Service (Whois-RWS), Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP), ftp.arin.net, and Resource Public Key Infrastructure Repository Delta Protocol (RRDP).

ARIN chartered a Mailing List Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) Committee to review reported AUP violations and advise the President and CEO on proposed courses of action to ensure the decisions are sound and consistent with documented procedures. In the last several years, there have been zero reports of AUP violations. In November 2024, the ARIN Board of Trustees adopted a new uniform code of standards, the ARIN Participants Expected Standards of Behavior, which incorporates the former Mailing List Acceptable Use Policy and Remote Participation Acceptable Use Policy standards and applies to all in-person and online interactions for the ARIN community.

ARIN is pleased to announce the following individuals will be serving on the ARIN 55 Fellowship Selection Committee: Matthew Cowen, former Fellow Don Evans, ARIN General Member Amanda Gauldin, ARIN Project Manager (Chair) Evghenii Kosatii, former Fellow Michael Leone, ARIN General Member Glenn McKnight, former Fellow David Rodecker, ARIN General Member The ARIN Fellowship Selection Committee for ARIN 55 will be chaired by a member of ARIN’s Customer Experience and Strategy Department. This committee is comprised of three volunteer representatives from ARIN General Member organizations and three previous ARIN Fellows. Their collective responsibility is to review applications and select Fellows for participation in the ARIN Public Policy and Members Meeting being held 27-30 April in Charlotte, North Carolina.

From 20 September to 4 October 2024, ARIN held a consultation seeking feedback from the community on retiring FTP support, which serves data from ftp.arin.net. ARIN is moving forward with work required to support the retirement of FTP use at ARIN, and the projected retirement date is 31 March 2025. This is the 60-day notice of this change. ARIN is coordinating with the other Regional Internet Registries to ensure that the mirrors of the extended statistics data are migrated to HTTP/HTTPS, as well as determining an appropriate solution and implementing a method that will allow community members to run synchronization and mirroring of these data sets. All data currently available via FTP will continue to be available over HTTP and HTTPS.

This message is posted on behalf of the Number Resource Organization The feedback period for the proposed ICP-2 principles has officially concluded. During this process, we received nearly 300 responses from the different Internet communities associated with each Regional Internet Registry (RIR). Below is the total breakdown of responses by region: APNIC (Asia Pacific) 154 (51.7%) AFRINIC (Africa) 55 (18.5%) RIPE NCC (Europe, Middle East and parts of Central Asia) 36 (12.1%)

Registration is now open for the ARIN 55 Public Policy and Members Meeting, taking place 27-30 April 2025 in Charlotte, North Carolina, and online via Zoom. Register for ARIN 55 We are excited to provide opportunities for both virtual and in-person participation and hope you can join us for this free event. Our ARIN 55 agenda includes discussions of multiple draft policies, reports from our Board of Trustees and Advisory Council, a variety of updates from ARIN staff, and more! Stay tuned for a detailed agenda as we get closer to the event.

The ARIN office will be closed on Monday, 20 January, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. ARIN’s office will reopen with normal operating hours on Tuesday, 21 January.

Effective 16 January 2025, ARIN has updated the ARIN TAL to ensure compatibility with Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) validators. The only updates to the TAL are new remarks regarding disclaimers, exclusions, and limitations concerning its use. There have been no changes to the Trust Anchor Key, therefore no action is required by operators running validators loaded with the last available version. This updated ARIN TAL can be found here. ARIN would like to acknowledge Job Snijders for his invaluable input, cooperation, and time in assisting with the update of the ARIN TAL. Job has provided ARIN solid feedback on our Internet Routing Registry and RPKI services over time.