Re: Accidental ARIN Reallocation

[Tom Beecher via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

ARIN hasn’t exhibited a pattern of this error. They haven’t exhibited a
pattern of similar errors.

Every single one of us has, at some point made a decision to defer dealing
with something because of resourcing, timing, frequency of potential
mistake, etc. Anyone who says otherwise is full of shit.

There’s no reason to get all verklempt over this.

On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 16:06 David Conrad via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>
wrote:

> Hank,
>
> On Dec 14, 2025, at 9:48 PM, Hank Nussbacher via NANOG <
> nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
> > A masterclass in owning a mistake and handling it properly.
>
> “Owning”? Sure. "Handling it properly"? Time will tell.
>
> The issue here is that RIRs were created to have precisely one job, namely
> to ensure the allocation of unique resources. Everything else is secondary.
> And ARIN failed at that one job.
>
> It is, of course, true that mistakes (to put it politely) happen. People
> are fallible, bugs exist, systems crash, etc. What matters in the context
> of “core mission" is how much the organization's policies, processes, and
> priorities played in those mistakes. It appears updating systems to address
> “known weaknesses" was not prioritized, that internal processes were
> apparently not followed, and that policies were not in place to ensure ARIN
> could not fail in its core mission. Outside of the impact to the direct
> customers and a potential degradation in trust in ARIN’s service, there is
> a larger context: at a time when the RIR system as a whole is facing
> increased scrutiny due to governance concerns, changes in its operational
> role due to (and failures in) RPKI, threats from various actors, etc., this
> isn’t a good look.
>
> ARIN has made a number of promises and presumably over time, there will be
> information about how it is living up to those promises. Hopefully, that
> information will show ARIN is "handling it properly”.
>
> Regards,
> -drc
>
>
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