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ARIN · RIR Watchdog

2006-1: Residential Customer Privacy

Start here for the proposal-by-proposal record: what changed, why it mattered, who argued for what, how positions evolved, what was decided, and where the evidence still has gaps.

Source facts

Policy ID
ARIN-2006-1
RIR
ARIN
Official status
Unknown
Normalized status
Unknown
Introduced
Unknown
Last source update
Oct 14, 2026
Coverage
Partial

Who actually shaped the debate?

3Total participants
3Discussion contributors
UnknownFormal actors
3Discussion messages
3Effective participants
100%Top-five discussion share
2People covering 50%
3People covering 80%

Policy evolution

Debate timeline

  1. Public discussion

    [ppml] Path forward on 2006-1

    2 Discussion messages · 2 Entities

    Source facts ↗

Entities

Freshness: Stale
  1. Christopher Morrow
    Discussion messages1
    First activityApr 22, 2006
    Last activityApr 22, 2006
    First explicit stanceUnknown
    Latest explicit stanceUnknown
    Stance changes0
    Viewpoint consistencyInsufficient evidence to assess consistency
    Other policies2
  2. Michael Dillon
    Discussion messages1
    First activityApr 25, 2006
    Last activityApr 25, 2006
    First explicit stanceUnknown
    Latest explicit stanceUnknown
    Stance changes0
    Viewpoint consistencyInsufficient evidence to assess consistency
    Other policies4
  3. Ray Plzak
    Discussion messages1
    First activityApr 24, 2006
    Last activityApr 24, 2006
    First explicit stanceUnknown
    Latest explicit stanceUnknown
    Stance changes0
    Viewpoint consistencyInsufficient evidence to assess consistency
    Other policies1
    Freshness: Stale

    Last research attempt: Sep 26, 2026

    Identity verified: Sep 26, 2026

    ARIN · Historical
    President, ARIN
    archive.icann.org
    ICANN · Historical
    member of the Board
    archive.icann.org

    Verified public profiles

    Discussion messages
    1
    First activity
    Apr 24, 2006
    Last activity
    Apr 24, 2006
    First explicit stance
    Unknown
    Latest explicit stance
    Unknown
    Stance changes
    0
    Viewpoint consistency
    Insufficient evidence to assess consistency
    Other policies
    1

    First explicit stance: Unknown → Latest explicit stance: Unknown · Stance changes: 0

    Viewpoint consistency: Insufficient evidence to assess consistency

    Plzak explicitly describes an ARIN staff verification requirement rather than support for or opposition to the residential privacy proposal. He says individual location details are among the metrics staff use. The single retained contribution does not establish a personal vote, a change of position or consistency over time.

    2006-1: Residential Customer Privacy

    Assessment: Insufficient evidence to assess consistency · The statement explains why staff use customer location information for verification and expressly disclaims an argument for or against the policy. Operational need for a verification input does not by itself establish opposition to privacy protections. With only this contribution, there is no sequence of explicit positions to compare.

    Conditions: This assessment concerns the retained April 2006 staff explanation, not every contribution Plzak made to ARIN discussions. · The message neither establishes the policy outcome nor specifies every circumstance in which the location information is used.

    It was not an argument for or against the policy. The staff comment was that the information was still required for purpose of verification.

    City/state/postal code of individual users is a part of the metrics that are used by staff. We will confirm that we do use it.

    1. Apr 24, 2006 · Procedural or neutral

      [ppml] Path forward on 2006-1

      It was not an argument for or against the policy. The staff comment was that the information was still required for purpose of verification. … City/state/postal code of individual users is a part of the metrics that are used by staff. We will confirm that we do use it.

      Source facts ↗
    Per-policy stance timelines:ARIN-2006-1 · Unknown · Insufficient evidence to assess consistencyARIN-prop-18 · Unknown · No explicit position stated

    Total policy messages: 2

Sources and coverage

Official policy sources

Public discussion archives

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Freshness

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