Introducing IANA Managing Number Resources Leo Vegoda Number Resources Manager – IANA October 2009

Overview What is IANA? IANA History Who am I? What do I do? What are IP addresses? What are AS Numbers? How are Global Policies Developed? RIR Fellowship Schemes Relevant Session This Week October 2009

What is IANA? The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is responsible for the global coordination of the DNS Root, IP addressing, and other Internet protocol resources Whilst the Internet is renowned for being a worldwide network free from central coordination, there is a technical need for some key parts of the Internet to be globally coordinated – and this coordination role is undertaken by IANA October 2009

IANA History Someone had to keep track of all the protocols, the identifiers, networks and addresses and ultimately the names of all the things in the networked universe. And someone had to keep track of all the information that erupted with volcanic force from the intensity of the debates and discussions and endless invention that has continued unabated for 30 years. --Vint Cerf (RFC 2468) October 2009 Jon Postel

IANA Registries are Files (Plain text, XML and XHTML) October 2009

IANA Today Same building. Same mission. New people. Barbara Roseman Michelle Cotton Amanda Baber Pearl Liang Kim Davies Naela Sarras Nadia Sokolova Leo Vegoda Mark McFadden October 2009 Kim Davies

Who am I? Worked at 2 ISPs in London Spent 6 years at the RIPE NCC in Amsterdam Joined IANA in 2006 Responsible for Number Resources & IANA Business Excellence October 2009

IP addresses sit underneath the names we deal with. Like pipework under a car’s bonnet October 2009

They are just numbers. We write them in a structured format to help people use them when necessary October 2009

AS Numbers 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330 Marina del Rey, CA USA Much like a postcode gets a letter to a local post office, AS Numbers identify ISPs. In some ways, IP addresses are identifiers and AS Numbers are locators. October 2009

Today’s Internet BGP Routing Mostly IPv4 Mean AS_PATH is 3 hops October 2009 BGP Routing Table routeviews.org

Policy for Allocating Numbers The policies for allocating IP addresses and AS Numbers to the RIRs are called Global Policies Global Policies are policies that require action by IANA There are currently 4 Global Policies October 2009

Global Policies Global Policy for Allocation of ASN Blocks to RIRs Global Policy for Allocation of IPv6 Address Space Policy For Allocation of IPv4 Blocks to RIRs Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address Space October 2009

Recent IPv4 Statistics October 2009

The Global Policy Development Process October 2009

ASO AC Jean Robert Hountomey, AfriNIC Vincent Ngundi, AfriNIC Alan Barrett, AfriNIC Naresh Ajwani, APNIC Dr. Kenny S. Huang, APNIC Tomohiro Fujisaki, APNIC Louis Lee, ARIN Martin Hannigan, ARIN Jason Schiller, ARIN Sebastian Bellagamba, LACNIC Hartmut Glaser, LACNIC Francisco Obispo, LACNIC Dave Wilson,RIPE NCC Hans Petter Holen, RIPE NCC Wilfried Woeber, RIPE NCC October 2009 Louis Lee

How do I participate? Most policy development work is done on mailing lists. Anyone can join them and observe or participate in the discussion. Anyone can propose a policy. Most proposals start out as “what if” s. Discussion also happens at six-monthly meetings. But all decisions at meetings are subject to “Last Call” reviews. October 2009

RIR Fellowship Programs AfriNIC – APNIC (next meeting at APRICOT 2010) – LACNIC – ARIN – October 2009

Relevant Sessions IANA Business Excellence Workshop – Thursday – 13:00 – 14:30 – Sapphire 4 (L3) October 2009 IANA IPv6 Showcase – Thursday – 15: :30 – Sapphire 4 (L3)

References IANA – Routeviews – Global Policies – NRO Statistics – Raw data – ftp.iana.org/pub/mirror/rirstats/ The ASO – aso.icann.org October 2009

Thank You Leo Vegoda Number Resources Manager – IANA October 2009