Registration

Services Update Kjell Leknes

Registration Services

RIPE NCC

Overview

• Regional Internet Registries (RIR) and RIPE NCC

• Use of the last /8

• IPv6 in the Middle East

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RIRs & RIPE NCC

Regional Internet Registries (RIRs)

• Five RIRs worldwide

• Not for profit organisations

• Founded by membership fees

• Distribute IPv4, IPv6 and AS Numbers

• Neutral, impartial, open and transparent

• Policies decided by regional communities

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The Internet Registry System

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The RIPE NCC

Serving Europe, Middle East & parts of Central Asia

Provides Internet number resource allocations and

assignments, registration services and coordination

activities

Started in 1992 by the RIPE community

Based in Amsterdam

Over 9,700 members in 76 countries

Provides technical and administrative support to the

RIPE community

The RIPE Community

Open forum to anyone interested in the way the

Internet is managed, structured or governed in

Europe, Middle East and parts of Central Asia

Includes businesses, government, regulators, law

enforcement agencies, civil society, academia,

private citizens and more

Participation through mailing lists and attending

meetings

Various Working Groups

Use of the Last /8

IANA and the RIRs: IPv4 Pool

IPv4 Distribution

Time

September 2012:

The RIPE NCC starts to

allocate IPv4 address

space from the last

/8

The RIPE community’s

policies for allocations

from last the /8 apply

RIPE NCC

IPv4 pool

exhausted

The RIPE NCC can only

distribute IPv6

address space

Now

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IPv4 Exhaustion

Last /8 Policy

• Each LIR can get one final /22 allocation

• Applies for both new and existing members

• 16.000 /22s in one /8

• Returned addressing space goes into the free pool

• LIR must already hold an IPv6 allocation

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/22 IPv4 Allocations – Regional Statistics

Total allocations: 192

RIPE NCC available pool

Need more IPv4 space?

Three different types of intra-RIR transfers:

1) Mergers and acquisitions

2) IPv4 allocation transfers under the IPv4 policies

3) Legacy space transfers

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IPv6 Distribution

IPv6 Distribution

Getting an IPv6 Allocation

• Must be an LIR

• Plan to make assignments within two years

• Minimum allocation size is a /32

• Up to /29 without having to justify need

• Existing /32 can be extended up to a /29

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Getting IPv6 PI Address Space

• End Users must meet the contractual requirements for

Provider Independent (PI) resources

• LIRs must demonstrate special routing requirements

• Minimum assignment size is a /48

• PI space cannot be used for sub-assignments

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IPv6 in the Middle East

IPv6: Middle East Regional Statistics

Number of allocations: 377

IPv6 RIPEness

A star rating system based on IPv6 readiness

An LIR receives one star each for:

1) Holding an IPv6 allocation

2) Announcing the IPv6 allocation

3) Registering a route6 object in the RIPE Database

4) Setting up reverse DNS for the IPv6 allocation

A list of all LIRs’ RIPEness: http://ripeness.ripe.net

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IPv6 RIPEness in the Middle East

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Summary

• The pool of IPv4 addresses is depleted

• The RIPE NCC now allocates from the last /8

• IPv6 deployment is more important than ever

• If you need help filling in the IPv6 allocation request

or have any other RIPE NCC related issues – come

see me in the service center!

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Questions?