On 4/4/2022 11:56 AM, Job Snijders via NANOG wrote:
> One might argue "well, folks had more than a year to move their
> objects!", but on the other hand, it is entirely possible not all the
> right people were reached, or in cases where affected parties did
> receive a communication from ARIN, they perhaps were unable to
> understand the message.

Delurking to underscore this.

On 2/16/2022 4:33 PM, John Curran via NANOG wrote:
> We also notified by email Points of Contact (POCs) of organizations who
> have objects in the ARIN-NONAUTH database of the retirement date and
> offered them our assistance with the
>   transition.

I am an ARIN admin and tech POC for one of the affected ASNs/sets of
prefixes across 2 OrgIDs. I looked back at the messages I've received
that mention NONAUTH or Non-Authenticated. The only thing I've gotten is
the message originally sent via ARIN-Announce that John forwarded, plus
similar reminders.

I do not see any OrgID-specific communication about this.

No message saying "you are receiving this notification because you have
the following items that are in this thing we're retiring and nowhere
else" or "this may cause problems with your routes being propagated on
the internet" or some similar warning, or even something in the generic
note about how one should check to confirm whether they are affected. I
didn't realize until looking at the list Job provided that this was
something that affected me specifically, so the "don't care bits" were
set on the generic form letters I got from ARIN.

Nowhere does it say clearly what action should be taken in response
other than to contact ARIN with questions. It's getting me to generate
ROAs for my prefixes, so good job there, but ARIN failed in its efforts
to communicate what was happening in terms of the actual effects in
order to make an appropriate call to action for those who were either
like me, thinking we weren't affected, or are unfamiliar with how this
interacts with the rest of the Internet's routing infrastructure.

I'm extremely grateful to Job and Kenneth for stepping in to address
ARIN's failure here before it ruined a lot of people's weeks.

Wes George