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ARIN-prop-27: RSA Modification Procedure

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-prop-27
RIR
ARIN
Official status
Unknown
Normalized status
Unknown
Introduced
Apr 20, 2006
Last source update
Sep 26, 2026
Coverage
Partial

Who actually shaped the debate?

2Total participants
2Discussion contributors
UnknownFormal actors
2Discussion messages
2Effective participants
100%Top-five discussion share
1People covering 50%
2People covering 80%

BTW Analysis

BTW Analysis

What changed

No change can be established. The supplied verified chronology and participant stance timelines are empty, so there is no verified proposal version, amendment, transition, implementation step, or status change to compare.

What the debate was really about

The subject of any substantive debate cannot be determined from the supplied material. There are no recorded messages, participants, stance classifications, arguments, or unresolved or minority positions.

Decision vs debate

Neither a discussion nor a decision outcome is evidenced by the supplied verified facts. The snapshot records 0 messages, 0 discussion participants, 0 formal actors, 0 active days, and no decision record; it therefore cannot establish adoption, rejection, withdrawal, supersession, consensus, voting, or implementation.

Participation concentration

Participation concentration is not substantively measurable. Top-message shares, HHI, effective participant count, and core-participant counts are all stored as zero, but the dataset also contains zero messages and zero participants. These values do not demonstrate equal, dispersed, broad, or concentrated participation.

Chokepoint analysis

No agenda-setting, deliberative, procedural, or decision chokepoint can be identified because the verified material contains no chronology, participants, formal actors, messages, decision procedure, or linkage between discussion and outcome.

Uncertainties

  • It is uncertain whether the zero-valued participation snapshot reflects an actually inactive process, an empty extraction, a subject-matching failure, or incomplete source coverage.
  • No verified facts establish whether the proposal was adopted, rejected, withdrawn, superseded, or left unresolved.
  • A dated policy chronology, participant-level records, stance classifications, substantive arguments, decision records, and debate-to-outcome linkages are missing.
  • The zero concentration statistics are non-informative because their message and participant populations are empty.
  • The current versioned Doctrine authority establishes only a partial official position and does not supply the missing policy-process facts.

Policy evolution

Debate timeline

  1. Introduced

    Introduced

    Source facts ↗

  2. Public discussion

    [ppml] Proposed Policy: RSA Modification Procedure

    2 Discussion messages · 2 Entities

    Source facts ↗

Entities

Freshness: Stale · Last refresh: · The latest refresh failed. The last successful result is shown.
  1. Scott Leibrand · Identity unresolved
    Discussion messages1
    First activityApr 21, 2006
    Last activityApr 21, 2006
    First explicit stancePropose alternative
    Latest explicit stancePropose alternative
    Stance changes0
    Viewpoint consistencyInsufficient evidence to assess consistency
    Other policies1
  2. Unknown · Identity unresolved
    Discussion messages1
    First activityApr 21, 2006
    Last activityApr 21, 2006
    First explicit stancePropose alternative
    Latest explicit stancePropose alternative
    Stance changes0
    Viewpoint consistencyInsufficient evidence to assess consistency
    Other policies4

Sources and coverage

Official policy sources

Public discussion archives

  • arin-ppml
    Earliest captured
    Sep 1, 1999
    Latest captured
    Aug 25, 2026
    Last refresh
    Sep 25, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    31,573
    Known gaps
    642
  • www.arin.net
  • arin-arin-announce
    Earliest captured
    Aug 4, 2026
    Latest captured
    Sep 22, 2026
    Last refresh
    Sep 26, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    2,428
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-arin-consult
    Earliest captured
    Aug 14, 2026
    Latest captured
    Sep 15, 2026
    Last refresh
    Sep 26, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    2,027
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-arin-discuss
    Earliest captured
    Aug 2, 1999
    Latest captured
    Aug 21, 2007
    Last refresh
    Sep 26, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    716
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-arin-issued
    Earliest captured
    Aug 2, 2026
    Latest captured
    Sep 25, 2026
    Last refresh
    Sep 26, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    3,968
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-arin-ppml
    Earliest captured
    Aug 2, 2026
    Latest captured
    Sep 25, 2026
    Last refresh
    Sep 26, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    3,330
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-arin-regrws
    Earliest captured
    Unknown
    Latest captured
    Unknown
    Last refresh
    Unknown
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    0
    Known gaps
    68
  • arin-arin-rpki-pilot
    Earliest captured
    Jul 7, 2009
    Latest captured
    Jul 7, 2009
    Last refresh
    Sep 26, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    0
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-arin-suggestions
    Earliest captured
    Aug 26, 2026
    Latest captured
    Sep 4, 2026
    Last refresh
    Sep 26, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    1,014
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-arin-tech-discuss
    Earliest captured
    Aug 13, 2026
    Latest captured
    Sep 14, 2026
    Last refresh
    Sep 26, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    1,276
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-arin-whoisrws
    Earliest captured
    Oct 9, 2009
    Latest captured
    Sep 6, 2010
    Last refresh
    Sep 22, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
    Loading
    0
    Known gaps
    11
  • arin-clew
    Earliest captured
    May 6, 1999
    Latest captured
    Nov 7, 2002
    Last refresh
    Sep 26, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
    Loading
    56
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-dbwg
    Earliest captured
    Apr 22, 1999
    Latest captured
    Dec 30, 2004
    Last refresh
    Sep 26, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
    Loading
    443
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-iana-transition
    Earliest captured
    Oct 13, 2014
    Latest captured
    Jun 9, 2016
    Last refresh
    Sep 26, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    145
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-icp2_review
    Earliest captured
    Apr 14, 2025
    Latest captured
    Nov 10, 2025
    Last refresh
    Sep 21, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
    Loading
    0
    Known gaps
    46
  • arin-naipr
    Earliest captured
    Jan 1, 1997
    Latest captured
    Nov 3, 1997
    Last refresh
    Sep 26, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    1,964
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-nrr-blueprint
    Earliest captured
    Oct 9, 2002
    Latest captured
    Oct 29, 2002
    Last refresh
    Sep 21, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    0
    Known gaps
    1
  • arin-policy
    Earliest captured
    Oct 12, 1999
    Latest captured
    Mar 26, 2003
    Last refresh
    Sep 26, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    100
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-rtma
    Earliest captured
    Apr 18, 2000
    Latest captured
    Dec 28, 2001
    Last refresh
    Sep 26, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    269
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-services-wg
    Earliest captured
    Apr 20, 2016
    Latest captured
    Jan 20, 2018
    Last refresh
    Sep 22, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    29
    Known gaps
    6
  • arin-v6wg
    Earliest captured
    Nov 8, 2000
    Latest captured
    Mar 1, 2005
    Last refresh
    Sep 26, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
    Loading
    145
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-vwp
    Earliest captured
    Oct 18, 2000
    Latest captured
    Jul 10, 2001
    Last refresh
    Sep 26, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    232
    Known gaps
    0
  • arin-general-members
    Earliest captured
    Jun 3, 2022
    Latest captured
    Jun 25, 2026
    Last refresh
    Sep 26, 2026
    Coverage
    Source coverage is incomplete.
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    129
    Known gaps
    0

Coverage

Partial
Earliest captured: Jan 1, 1997
Latest captured: Sep 26, 2026

Freshness

Freshness: Stale · Last refresh: · The latest refresh failed. The last successful result is shown.

Known gaps

  • www.arin.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • www.arin.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-ppml: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • www.arin.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-arin-announce: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-arin-consult: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-arin-discuss: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-arin-issued: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-arin-ppml: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-arin-regrws: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-arin-rpki-pilot: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-arin-suggestions: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-arin-tech-discuss: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-arin-whoisrws: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-clew: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-dbwg: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-iana-transition: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-icp2_review: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-naipr: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-nrr-blueprint: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-policy: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-rtma: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-services-wg: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-v6wg: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-vwp: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • arin-general-members: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.