Paul,

Residential customer privacy policy in the NRPM means even if you SWIP them, 
you’re not
giving up much more data than their Postal code (or possibly a near-by or 
inclusive
generic Postal code in some cases).

As such, I think your argument here is a bit specious.

Owen

> On Jul 15, 2017, at 11:51 , Paul McNary <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello
> My concern is where the magic boundary will occur. If the swip boundary 
> includes the
> recommended /XX for residential customers and small business. I could see 
> where the
> whois database could be abused by harvesting our customer information. 
> Competitors
> could, would have access and ability to harvest proprietary information 
> concerning
> our ISP business. We would have to limit our end user details to the area 
> which will
> not be swip'ed to protect our business. That might not be the proper way to 
> utilize IPv6.
> Current guidance has been to assign a /56 to even residential customers and 
> some have
> recommended a /48 as the minimum assignment. I don't want my customer 
> information
> available in such a public accessible database as whois. They could count my 
> subscribers,
> harvest their names, addresses and even contact phone numbers. I do not see 
> this
> as being good. I would not even like my SMB businesses to have public 
> information
> unless they ask for it. I would prefer that the boundary be greater than /48. 
> With /48
> not being swip'ed or /56 even that is the minimum end user allocation.
> If I understand correctly (many times I do not) RFC/common agreement that a 
> /32 
> is the smallest allocation to be announced. I have also have heard /48. So in 
> my
> case if it can't be BGP public routable, I don't want to swip it. What ever 
> my BGP
> routers can publicly advertise, my BGP gateway, will be assigned to us. 
> Everything
> smaller than that, I don't want to publicly advertise.
> 
> Why would we want the ability to give the competition the tools to analyze our
> business with a publicly available tool (ie whois). I also don't think that 
> if ARIN
> will not provide an allocation size it shouldn't be swip'ed. So if ARIN wants 
> to directly
> provide /56 to end users, then I will rethink my thought process. Anything 
> smaller than 
> a minimum ARIN allocation, should not have to be swip'ed or under their 
> control.
> 
> Am I not understanding this correctly?
> 
> Thank you
> Paul McNary
> McNary Computer Services
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> 
> 
> 
> On 7/15/2017 12:42 PM, Scott Leibrand wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 10:24 AM, William Herrin <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 8:52 AM, John Curran <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Such a separation doesn’t preclude the community from adopting policy which
>> references the present or future state of routing (note, for example, the 
>> use of
>> “multihoming” criteria in several portions of the NRPM), but folks are 
>> reminded
>> that in Internet number resource policy we should only be specifying how the 
>> ARIN registry is to be administered, not how things are to be routed, since 
>> the 
>> latter is up to each ISP. 
>> 
>> Hi John,
>> 
>> In the interests of clarifying your remarks:
>> 
>> ARIN does not set or even recommend routing policy. Participants in the ARIN 
>> policy process routinely consider industry routing practices, IETF 
>> recommendations, etc. when suggesting ARIN address management policy and 
>> ARIN routinely enacts such policy.
>> 
>> Right?
>> 
>> That is true, but I think John is making a stronger point, which I'll make 
>> here: It's perfectly fine for ARIN policy to be contingent on (applied 
>> differently depending on) how a particular block is (going to be) routed.  
>> So if we think it's the right thing to do, we could require in the NRPM that 
>> all blocks in the global routing system be SWIP'ed.  But we *can't* enforce 
>> such a requirement by saying, for example, that ISPs can't accept a block 
>> until it's SWIP'ed.  We can only issue guidelines on what should be SWIP'ed 
>> and make ARIN services (like allocation of additional blocks) contingent on 
>> whether such a policy is followed.  If an enforced SWIP-before-routing rule 
>> is desired by the ISPs that participate in the global routing system, then 
>> they'll have to do so voluntarily by refusing to accept the announcement of 
>> non-SWIP'ed blocks.
>> 
>> -Scott
>> 
>> 
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