Twice a year, every year, we host Public Policy and Members Meetings in our region. Here are 6 things you need to know about our meetings.
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6 Things to Know About ARIN Meetings
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How You Can Help Prevent Fraud at ARIN
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Jon Worley, Technical Services Manager at ARIN, discusses the process you can use to report suspected fraud abuse at ARIN.
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RPKI: The Key to Routing Security
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Andy Newton, Chief Engineer, explains what RPKI is, why it’s so important to use, and how you can participate in RPKI through ARIN online.
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Why Does DNS Security Matter?
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Securing DNS is critical to ensuring online safety. We discuss the importance of DNSSEC and share the services ARIN offers to help you secure your reverse zones.
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How Whois Accuracy Impacts Public Safety
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There are a wide variety of public uses for Whois data, including ensuring public safety. From a public safety perspective, failure to have accurate Whois information can present many challenges which Leslie Nobile, Senior Director of Global Registry Knowledge, discusses.
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Origin AS: An Easier Way to Validate Letters of Authority
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One challenge that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) face today is dealing with end customers who have their own IP address blocks and want their ISP to route them. ISPs want to satisfy their customers, but they also want to ensure that the customer has valid use of the IP address block.
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RDAP: Whois for the Modern World
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RDAP was given official standards status last year by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and was quickly adopted by all the RIRs. But the IETF didn’t just design RDAP for IP network registrations and ASNs. RDAP was also designed to model the data in Domain Name Registries (DNRs) and has extension mechanisms for other registry types.
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the New Whois: RDAP
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In the summer of 2015, you may have heard about a new service ARIN was rolling out called the Registration Data Access Protocol, or RDAP. Perhaps you understood that it was intended to be a successor to the Whois protocol, but you weren’t clear on the specifics. Maybe you weren’t even aware of the need for a replacement. And come on, what really makes RDAP better than Whois? The answer is a lot and if you’re not using it by now, you should be.
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