Presentation given by Mihnea-Costin Grigore on 24-25 May 2012 at the ITU Workshop in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova

1. Introduction to the
RIPE NCC and the
RIR System
Mihnea-Costin Grigore, RIPE NCC

2. RIPE NCC
• One of the five Regional Internet Registries
• Support coordination of Internet operations
• Not-for-profit membership organisation
• Around 8000 active members
• Neutral, Impartial, Open, Transparent
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3. The Five Regional Internet Registries
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4. IP Address Distribution
/3 IANA
/12 RIR
/32 LIR
/48 /56 /48 End User
Allocation PA Assignment PI Assignment
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5. RIPE Community
• Policy forum
– Not a legal entity
– No official membership
– Open to everyone
• No voting
– Consensus decision making
• Work happens at meetings and on mailing lists:
– Working Groups
– Task forces
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6. RIPE Meetings
• Twice a year
• Plenary discussions
– Wide ranging topics
• Working Group meetings
– More specific focus
• Policy discussions
• Exchange of views and information
• Interaction with other Internet stakeholders
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7. RIPE Policy Development Process
• Open
– Anyone can participate
– Policy meetings
– Mailing lists
• Transparent
– List discussions archived publicly
– Meetings transcribed
• Developed bottom-up
– By the community that use the IP addresses
– “Self-regulation” model
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8. How IPv4 is Distributed
LACNIC
• IANA distributed ARIN
9 RIPE NCC
35
final /8 blocks on 36
3 February 2011
• APNIC reached its APNIC
final /8 on 15 April
45
Central Registry
2011 91
AfriNIC
“Final /8” policies
5
• Other
35
limit access to
IPv4 allocations
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9. Reaching the Next Billion
• Around 1.9 billion Internet users now
– Five times as many as there were in the year 2000
– Around 29% of all people
• Mobile phones are becoming Internet devices
– ...and need IP addresses!
• The Internet of Things
– An IP address on every lightbulb?
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10. What RIPE NCC Is Doing
• Raise awareness of the problem
– Different roles for different sectors
– Industry,
government, civil society, technical
community
• Ensure IPv6 is accessible to all
• Engage with ALL stakeholders
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11. RIPE NCC Capacity Building
• Training for Local Internet Registries
– Targeted at LIRs/RIPE NCC members
• IPv6 Roadshow
– Targeted at technical staff operating government and
large enterprise networks
– Collaboration with industry and regional Network
Operators Groups (e.g. MENOG)
– Launched in Middle East, 2010
– Plans for expanding to CIS region
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12. ENOG
• Eurasia Network Operators’ Group
• Regional forum to share knowledge and
expertise on issues relevant to the Russian
Federation, CIS and Eastern Europe
• Three events since June 2011
– ENOG 3 held this week (22-23 May) in Odessa,
Ukraine
• More information at www.enog.org
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13. Working with the Public Sector
RIPE NCC Government
Roundtables
RIPE
community Government
RIPE Cooperation Working
Group
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14. RIPE NCC Roundtable Meetings
• Regular events since 2005
– Held in Amsterdam and the Middle East (planning)
• Participants
– 40+ Governments representatives from 18+ countries
• Topics covered
– IPv6 deployment
– IPv4 depletion
– Internet governance
– DNSSEC
– Resource certification (RPKI)
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15. RIPE Cooperation Working Group
• Formed in 2008
– After work by the Enhanced Cooperation Task Force
• Focus on cooperation between private and
public sectors
• Encouraging participation and input from
stakeholders outside the traditional RIPE
community
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16. IPv6 Act Now www.ipv6actnow.org
• One-stop shop for IPv6 information, launched in
June 2009
• Audience includes business, government and
technical communities
• Sections include:
- How To Act Now - RSS feed of IPv6-related
- Community interviews news and developments
- Statistics - Links and information
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17. RIPE Labs
• A platform and a tool for the community
• You can
– Test and evaluate new tools and prototypes
– Contribute new ideas and research results
– Discover and discuss in forums and blogs
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18. RIPE Labs and IPv6
• Update on IPv6 Address Distribution
• LIRs can Test IPv6 Reachability Using RIPE Atlas
• Measuring IPv6 at the Network and the
Customer Level
• IPv6 RIPEness: How to Reach the Stars
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19. Questions?
Questions?