On Feb 5, 2016, at 8:44 AM, Job Snijders <job@instituut.net> wrote:
Dear John,
On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 08:15:29PM +0000, John Curran wrote:
One of the concerns raised at a previous NANOG was with respect to the need for an RPKI relying parties to explicitly accept ARIN's relying party agreement (RPA) - note that this has now been changed (per the attached announcement)
Wile the RPA terms remain the same, it is no longer necessary to click-accept and provide an email in order to access ARIN's trust anchor locator (TAL).
Can you explain in layman terms what the legal consequences of this change are?
Job - As I noted, the Relying Party Agreement terms and conditions remain the same - we have simply eliminated the requirement for explicit agreement to it thru entry of your email and click-to-accept. We do not expect there is any legal consequences for relying parties as result of this change [1], only a question of convenience of access to the TAL as sought by the community. Thanks! /John John Curran President and CEO ARIN [1] The world of assenting to agreement terms is an interesting legal topic, and others may argue that changing from click-to-accept to binding by usage is material; such is the nature of legal matters.