Regional Internet Registries RIRs

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Regional Internet Registries (RIRs)

• Samantha Sau Man Lo

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Regional Internet Registries (RIRs)

• Manage, distribute, and register public Internet
  Number Resources within their respective regions,
• Manage root servers,
• Launch new policies/ protocol changes,
• Hold meetings and trainings with different Local
  Internet Registries (LIRs), etc.

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Internet Resource Allocation
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Regional Internet Registries (RIRs)
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IPv4 Addresses Allocated to RIRs
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AS Number Assignments
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APNIC Misconception

• The total number of IP addresses in China lt a /8
  address block
• In the early days of the Internet, many
  organizations in the US got a /8.
• E.g. MIT, Stanford, IBM, Apple Computer, and
  Boeing, etc.
• NOT TRUE. Since 2000, the total number of IP
  addresses in China gt a /8 address block.
• And still growing.
• http//www.apnic.net/archive/news/hot-topics/inter
  net-gov/ip-china.html

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Adoption of New Policies/Protocol Changes

• Transition from two- to four-byte AS numbers
• Several Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) have
  warned that routers and network management
  software should be upgraded ahead of the
  increased distribution of four-byte Autonomous
  System (AS) numbers. AS numbers are a vital part
  of the Internets core routing system, the Border
  Gateway Protocol (BGP). With existing two-byte AS
  numbers predicted to run out in early 2011, RIRs
  will issue four-byte AS numbers by default
  (unless otherwise specifically requested)
  beginning 1 January 2009, as the next phase of a
  transition from two- to four-byte numbers.
  Following a globally coordinated policy, RIRs
  began allocating four-byte AS numbers by request
  only in January 2007 January 2009 marks the
  transition to allocating four-byte AS numbers by
  default.
• (http//www.arin.net/media/releases/ARIN-ASN-Rele
  ase-Web.pdf)

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Not Covered

• Root server services by each RIRs
• Statistics about RIRs by country
• http//www.nro.net/about/rir-areas.html
• Different policies of RIRs
• http//www.nro.net/documents/nro43.html

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References

• Number Resource Organization
• http//www.nro.net/
• Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
  Numbers
• http//www.icann.org
• LACNIC
• http//www.lacnic.net
• APNIC
• http//www.apnic.net
• RIPE NCC
• http//www.ripe.net
• ARIN
• http//www.arin.net
• AfriNIC
• http//www.afrinic.net/

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RIRs

• African Network Information Centre (AfriNIC) 
  for Africa
• Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) 
  for Asia and the Pacific region
• American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) 
  for North America and parts of the Caribbean
• Latin American and Caribbean Internet Address
  Registry (LACNIC)  for Latin America and parts of
  the Caribbean region
• RIPE Network Coordination Centre (RIPE
  NCC)  for Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia

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IPv4 Addresses Issued to Organizations (ARIN)
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IPv4 Address Allocations (APNIC)
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LANIC
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Technical Services from APNIC

• Root server deployments
• Working with root operators (F, I, K)
• New host locations welcome (send EOIs)

• APNIC PoPs
• Reliable distributed services
• AU, JP, HK
• Online services reverse DNS, whois, www

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