This document provides an overview of various organizations and communities involved in internet governance and standards development. It discusses the roles of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Internet Society (ISOC), Internet Architecture Board (IAB), Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), regional network operators groups, and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in developing protocols, policies, and standards for the internet. It encourages participation in these groups to help develop a globally interoperable internet.
About the IETF: Presentation for the University of BotswanaInternet Society
Until now, the participation of Africans in IETF is almost inexistent. This has to change if Africa wants to be at the forefront of the development of the next standards of Internet Technology that will define the Internet of tomorrow.
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ION Trinidad and Tobago, 5 February 2015 - Beyond the Tipping Point: Global Connectivity Three Years After World IPv6 Launch
Kevon Swift (LACNIC)
June 2015 marks the 3rd anniversary of World IPv6 Launch, when thousands of Internet Service Providers, home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world came together to permanently enable IPv6 on their products and services. Where are we now on the path to full global IPv6 adoption? We’ll discuss the current state of IPv6 adoption, including statistics and lessons learned from and since World IPv6 Launch, and the next steps needed to move forward with IPv6 deployment.
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Until now, the participation of Africans in IETF is almost inexistent. This has to change if Africa wants to be at the forefront of the development of the next standards of Internet Technology that will define the Internet of tomorrow.
11 April 2016 - ION Bangladesh - What’s happening at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)? What RFCs and Internet-Drafts are in progress related to IPv6, DNSSEC, Routing Security/Resiliency, and other key topics? We’ll give an overview of the ongoing discussions in several working groups and discuss the outcomes of recent Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions, and provide a preview of what to expect in future discussions.
ION Trinidad and Tobago, 5 February 2015 - Beyond the Tipping Point: Global Connectivity Three Years After World IPv6 Launch
Kevon Swift (LACNIC)
June 2015 marks the 3rd anniversary of World IPv6 Launch, when thousands of Internet Service Providers, home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world came together to permanently enable IPv6 on their products and services. Where are we now on the path to full global IPv6 adoption? We’ll discuss the current state of IPv6 adoption, including statistics and lessons learned from and since World IPv6 Launch, and the next steps needed to move forward with IPv6 deployment.
23 November 2017 - At ION Belgrade, Kevin Meynell discusses what happened at the recent IETF meeting, and how to get involved in the open Internet standards community.
ION Trinidad and Tobago, 5 February 2015 - Chris Grundemann from the Internet Society Deploy360 Programme explains the programme, its goals, other projects of the team, and the ION Conferences, while welcoming participants to Port of Spain.
18 September 2017 - At ION Malta, Adam Peake discusses the IANA transition:
The IANA transition was successfully completed in October 2016 creating strengthened relationships between the IETF (Internet protocols and standards), Regional Internet Registries RIRs (IP addresses), and ccTLD and gTLD operators and TLD community and ICANN. A new organisation, Public Technical Identifiers (PTI), an affiliate of ICANN, is now responsible for performing the IANA functions and delivering the IANA Services on behalf of ICANN. The session will discuss these new arrangements and how they have enhanced ICANN’s accountability and transparency to the global Internet community. The session will also describe how ICANN is preparing for the Root KSK Rollover.
Presentation given at ION Santiago in Chile on 28 October 2014. Opening slides explain the Deploy360 program, ION Conferences, and how to work together to help increase real-world use of technologies such as IPv6, DNSSEC, DANE, TLS, and routing security best practices.
ION Cape Town, 8 September 2015 - Andrei Robachevsky discusses the Routing Resilience Manifesto initiative, underpinned by the “Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS)” document that includes a set of actionable recommendations, which aims to help network operators around the world work together to improve the security and resilience of the global routing system. In this session, we’ll explain the basic principles outlined in MANRS, how to sign up and support the effort, and how to get involved in helping to further increase global routing security.
The MANRS initiative and Routing Resilience Manifesto aims to help network operators around the world to improve the security and resilience of the global routing system.
The Internet itself is a globally distributed computer network comprised of many voluntarily interconnected autonomous networks. Similarly, its governance is conducted by a decentralized and international multistakeholder network of interconnected autonomous groups drawing from civil society, the private sector, governments, the academic and research communities, and national and international organizations. They work cooperatively from their respective roles to create shared policies and standards that maintain the Internet’s global interoperability for the public good.
Learn more about Internet governance here: http://www.icann.org/en/groups
ION Cape Town, 8 September 2015: The Internet Society is working toward fostering a larger and more engaged network operator community around the IETF and protocol development work. Part of that work was a survey of network operators in 2014 and an Internet-Draft about its results. We’re also interested specifically in bringing more African engineers with operational experience into the IETF, and perhaps even bringing a physical IETF meeting to the continent of Africa within the next few years. We’ll outline some of our recent work and hope to make this an interactive session to learn from the local community how to encourage more IETF participation.
IETF's Role and Mandate in Internet Governance by Mohit BatraOWASP Delhi
1. Internet Governance (IG) Primer
2. I-* Organizations
3. IANA function -Names, Numbers and Protocol Parameters
4. IANA Transition
5. WHOIS for names and numbers
6. Need for Standardization and Standardization Bodies
7. How IETF Works
8. TLS Protocol
9. Increasing Indian participation in global Internet Governance activities and structures
Internet Ecosystem is the term used to describe the organizations and communities that guide the operation and development of the technologies and infrastructure that comprise the global Internet. These organizations share common values for the open development of the Internet.
23 November 2017 - At ION Belgrade, Kevin Meynell discusses what happened at the recent IETF meeting, and how to get involved in the open Internet standards community.
ION Trinidad and Tobago, 5 February 2015 - Chris Grundemann from the Internet Society Deploy360 Programme explains the programme, its goals, other projects of the team, and the ION Conferences, while welcoming participants to Port of Spain.
18 September 2017 - At ION Malta, Adam Peake discusses the IANA transition:
The IANA transition was successfully completed in October 2016 creating strengthened relationships between the IETF (Internet protocols and standards), Regional Internet Registries RIRs (IP addresses), and ccTLD and gTLD operators and TLD community and ICANN. A new organisation, Public Technical Identifiers (PTI), an affiliate of ICANN, is now responsible for performing the IANA functions and delivering the IANA Services on behalf of ICANN. The session will discuss these new arrangements and how they have enhanced ICANN’s accountability and transparency to the global Internet community. The session will also describe how ICANN is preparing for the Root KSK Rollover.
Presentation given at ION Santiago in Chile on 28 October 2014. Opening slides explain the Deploy360 program, ION Conferences, and how to work together to help increase real-world use of technologies such as IPv6, DNSSEC, DANE, TLS, and routing security best practices.
ION Cape Town, 8 September 2015 - Andrei Robachevsky discusses the Routing Resilience Manifesto initiative, underpinned by the “Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS)” document that includes a set of actionable recommendations, which aims to help network operators around the world work together to improve the security and resilience of the global routing system. In this session, we’ll explain the basic principles outlined in MANRS, how to sign up and support the effort, and how to get involved in helping to further increase global routing security.
The MANRS initiative and Routing Resilience Manifesto aims to help network operators around the world to improve the security and resilience of the global routing system.
The Internet itself is a globally distributed computer network comprised of many voluntarily interconnected autonomous networks. Similarly, its governance is conducted by a decentralized and international multistakeholder network of interconnected autonomous groups drawing from civil society, the private sector, governments, the academic and research communities, and national and international organizations. They work cooperatively from their respective roles to create shared policies and standards that maintain the Internet’s global interoperability for the public good.
Learn more about Internet governance here: http://www.icann.org/en/groups
ION Cape Town, 8 September 2015: The Internet Society is working toward fostering a larger and more engaged network operator community around the IETF and protocol development work. Part of that work was a survey of network operators in 2014 and an Internet-Draft about its results. We’re also interested specifically in bringing more African engineers with operational experience into the IETF, and perhaps even bringing a physical IETF meeting to the continent of Africa within the next few years. We’ll outline some of our recent work and hope to make this an interactive session to learn from the local community how to encourage more IETF participation.
IETF's Role and Mandate in Internet Governance by Mohit BatraOWASP Delhi
1. Internet Governance (IG) Primer
2. I-* Organizations
3. IANA function -Names, Numbers and Protocol Parameters
4. IANA Transition
5. WHOIS for names and numbers
6. Need for Standardization and Standardization Bodies
7. How IETF Works
8. TLS Protocol
9. Increasing Indian participation in global Internet Governance activities and structures
Internet Ecosystem is the term used to describe the organizations and communities that guide the operation and development of the technologies and infrastructure that comprise the global Internet. These organizations share common values for the open development of the Internet.
Opening Slides from ION Belfast by Chris Grundemann of the Internet Society. Introduces the Internet Society and the Deploy360 Programme that hosts the ION Conference Series.
3 July 2017 - Opening slides from ION Costa Rica, introducing the Internet Society, the Deploy360 program, and our work in IPv6, DNSSEC, TLS, routing security, and the IETF
Quant - Interchain Development And Cross-Chain Protocols. BlockchainLive 2018Gilbert Verdian
The Internet of Trust: Network of inter-connected blockchain networks to transact Value.
I covered the history of the Internet, the mistakes we made with OSI and why we’re making the same mistakes again on blockchain.
The problem with Blockchain today is lack of Openness, Adoption and Proprietary Technology
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DNS Business Development Workshop
Course Overview
This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of the Domain Name System (DNS) industry and business drivers to enable entrepreneurs to understand potential business opportunities in this industry.
The course will focus on practical issues where appropriate, with case studies and listings of available resources and vendors in the industry. Ample time will be included for networking opportunities and identifying available resources for on-going assistance after the conclusion of the course.
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ION Islamabad, 25 January 2017
By Kevin Meynell, Internet Society
What’s happening at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)? What RFCs and Internet-Drafts are in progress related to IPv6, DNSSEC, Routing Security/Resiliency, and other key topics? We’ll give an overview of the ongoing discussions in several working groups and discuss the outcomes of recent Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions, and provide a preview of what to expect in future discussions.
3 July 2017 - At ION Costa Rica, Kevin Meynell discusses work underway at the IETF on IPv6, DNSSEC, Routing, and more, and how anyone can get involved in the IETF process.
APNIC Chief Scientist Geoff Huston introduces the IETF, including the emergence of the IETF, the IETF culture-kings, voting and running code, today’s IETF and some new opinions at APAN 54, held in a hybrid format from 22 to 26 August 2022 in Jinan, China.
7 September 2017 - At ION Conference Durban, South Africa, Kevin Meynell discusses what's happening at the IETF in the world of Internet standards, and how you can get involved in the process.
18 September 2017 - ION Malta
What’s happening at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)? What RFCs and Internet-Drafts are in progress related to IPv6, DNSSEC, Routing Security/Resiliency, and other key topics? We’ll give an overview of the ongoing discussions in several working groups and discuss the outcomes of recent Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions, and provide a preview of what to expect in future discussions.
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Organisations and Communities
of the Internet
There is no
definitive list
of organisations
and there are
a lot of
participants!
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Some of the significant entities
include:
• Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF)
• Internet Society (ISOC)
• Internet Architecture Board (IAB)
• Internet Assigned Numbers
Authority (IANA)
• Regional Internet Registries (RIRs)
• Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers (ICANN)
• Regional Network Operators
Groups (*nogs)
• W3C, ITU, and many more!
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ISOC: Mission
To promote the open development, evolution, and use
of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout
the world.
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The Internet is for Everyone
Three major focus areas:
• Enabling Access
• InterNetworks
• Trust and Identity
The Internet Society was founded
in 1992 as a nonprofit charitable
organisation.
Our sole focus is promoting
the Internet.
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ISOC: Enabling Access
Technical Capacity Building
• Training
• Community Building
• Foster Technical Leadership
Policy, Regulation and Access Environment
• Education of key issues to promote sound policy making
• Education on economic and social factors and how it impacts the
Internet
Enabling Access for Under-served Communities
• The Internet as a non-Latin language medium
• Advance development of technologies for facilitating the use of
the Internet for individuals with disabilities
Focuses on enabling access to the Internet by addressing the
fundamental impediments to Internet growth and usability
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ISOC: Trust and Identity
Architecture and Trust
• Investigates the implementation of open-trust mechanisms
throughout the full cycle of Internet
research, standardisation, development and deployment
Current Problems, Solutions and Trust
• Investigates the mitigation of the social, policy and economic
factors that may hinder development and deployment for trust-
enabling technologies
Identity and Trust
• Investigates the elevation of identity to a core issue in network
research and standards development
In order to be trusted, the Internet must provide channels for
secure, reliable, private communication between entities
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ISOC: InterNetworks
Global Addressing Program
• Identifies challenges to global addressing (IPv4 address
exhaustion, IPv6 deployment, etc.)
Common Internet Program
• Strives to eliminate “islands” of networking.
• Aims to drive the development, acceptance, and consistent
implementation of the “end to end principle” of the Internet
Security and Stability
• Supports development and deployment of key technologies for
ensuring a stable and secure Internet infrastructure
Focuses on the continued operation of the global Internet
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The IETF
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Published through the
RFC Editor:
http://www.rfc-editor.org
The IETF was formed in 1986 to
develop & promote Internet
standards and related technical
documents, including:
• Request for Comments (RFCs)
• Best Current Practices (BCPs)
• Internet Drafts (IDs)
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The IETF
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Lots of work takes
place through mailing
lists and other forms of
communication.
• It is an open and participatory
process.
• Meetings take place three times a
year around the globe.
• Remote participation is
encouraged as some IETF
contributors have never
physically attended a meeting.
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IETF Scope
Protocols: “above the wire and below
the application.”
How to deliver the data across a
network and how to deliver the data
to the application.
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IP
TCP
SMTP
DNS
SIP
ENUM
HTTP
SSL
BGP
etc.
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It’s Only Good If People Use It
• There is no formal recognition of
IETF standards.
• The process works because
people choose to adopt these
standards.
• The goal is to set global standards
in protocol development.
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Example:
My email server knows how
to talk to your email server…
not knowing (or caring)
about what server
application you chose to
install.
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IAB
In 1984 the IAB started as a
replacement for the Internet
Configuration Control Board (ICCB)
and a committee of the IETF.
Initially the IAB had oversight for many
taskforces, but eventually focused on
two: IETF and IRTF (Internet Research
Task Force).
Responsibilities include:
• Confirmation of IETF chair
and IESG Area Directors
• Architectural Oversight
• Standards Process
Oversight and Appeal
• RFC Series and the IANA
• External Liaison between
IETF and other entities
• Advice to ISOC
• Selection of IRTF Chair
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ICANN
Established in 1998 as a global
nonprofit organisation to manage
functions that were previously
performed by U.S. government
contractors.
Currently operates the IANA function
and is responsible for coordinating the
management of the Internet domain
name system (DNS).
Develops policies and
procedures for DNS
related activities:
• New Top Level Domains
• Accreditation of domain
name registrars
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IANA
IANA came from the need to start
recording unique identifiers on the
Internet, a function operated by the
University of Southern California under
contract with the U.S. government until
1998 when it was moved to ICANN.
IANA works with the IAB and IETF as
the repository of unique identifiers as
described in RFCs and other
documents and distributes blocks of IP
addresses to the RIRs.
Jon Postel,
keeper of the
famous
unique identifiers
“black book”
• Manages the
DNS root zone
file
• Manages and
operates various
core DNS
zones, such as
.INT and parts of
.ARPA
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Regional Internet Registries
(RIRs)
APNIC: Asia and Pacific
AfriNIC: Africa
RIPE NCC: Europe, Middle East and parts of Central Asia
LACNIC: Latin America and parts of Caribbean
ARIN: US, Canada and parts of Caribbean
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RIRs
The RIRs are responsible, within their
assigned regions, for allocating globally
unique IP addresses (IPv4 and IPv6) and
autonomous system numbers (ASNs).
Allocation policies are determined in-
region through open policy development
processes.
Number Resource Organisation (NRO) is
comprised of the five RIRs and
coordinates global allocation policies.
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*NOGs
• *NOGs focus on information
exchange between ISPs and network
operators within a region.
• They work to deliver key information
and experiences to those who need it
– the network operator.
• The act as a human networking
opportunity so people can meet and
interact with their peers and other
companies. Critical for when things
go bad on the network!
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So… who’s in charge??
Information sharing
is key to a successful
Internet!
• There is no “central” Internet authority.
• Each organisation or community tends
to specialise in a particular topic of
interest or responsibility.
• For instance, the network operator
groups tend to focus primarily on every
day operational issues while the IETF
focuses on protocol development and
standards.
• Overlap of interests are very common.
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What does that mean to me?
Participate!
Your ideas and dialog really do make a
difference in developing a globally
inter-operable Internet.
There are many new technologies
coming out that really need
participation from around the world
(DNSSEC, IPv6, IDNs, etc.).
Work to understand the strengths and
limitations of current Internet
standards.
Wait…there’s more!
• Participate globally!
(can be remotely)
• Participate locally!
• There are many
opportunities to
become involved!
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What is Internet Collaboration?
• Groups can be local, regional, or
global and their efforts benefit the
Internet.
• Products can be new protocols, best
common practices, applications, etc.
Collaboration is the act of
working together to produce
something of mutual benefit.
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Why Collaborate?
• Doesn’t producing open standards go against
business market share goals?
• Common Foundation
• Building Infrastructure
• Open Standards leads to extensible
applications
• Best Practices leads to predictable behaviors
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• The IETF is global and focused on
developing Open Standards.
• It develops Internet Drafts to be
published as RFCs through the
RFC Editor’s publication process.
• Participation in the IETF is based
on individuals and is free (other
than your time investment).
Standards Development
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
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Standards Development
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• W3C is global and the next layer
up from HTTP protocol and
develops open standards for the
web.
• It publishes the W3C
Recommendations document
series.
• W3C membership is based on
organisations and is paid.
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Standards Development
W3C Goals
“Web for Everyone”
To make the web available for all
people regardless of the
hardware, software, network
infrastructure, native
language, location, or physical or
mental ability.
“Web on Everything”
To make the web available on the
wide array of Internet “aware”
devices.
“Knowledge Base”
Develop a web that holds
information for use by both humans
and machine.
“Trust and Confidence”
Promote technologies that enable a
more collaborative environment
where
accountability, security, confidence
and confidentiality are all possible.
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Network Organisations
Network Operating Groups (nogs)
To name just a few:
• APNIC: Asia/Pacific Network Information Centre
• APOPS: Asia/Pacific Operators Forum
• APRICOT: Asia/Pacific Regional Internet
Conference on Operational Technologies
• JANOG: Japanese Network Operators Group
• NZNOG: New Zealand Network Operators Group
• PACNOG: Pacific Network Operators Group
• SANOG: South Asian Network Operators Group
• NANOG: North American Network Operators Group
• AFNOG: African Network Operators Group
• EOF: European Operators Forum WG
• FrNOG: French Network Operators Group
• NordNog: Nordic Operators Group
• RIPE and RIPE NCC: Promote Wide Area Network
Operators in Europe
• SwiNOG: Swiss Network Operators Group
• ARIN: American Registry for Internet Numbers
• LACNIC: Latin American and Caribbean IP address
Regional Registry
• Network Operating Groups’ primary
goal is to coordinate and distribute
technical information relating to
(mostly) backbone/enterprise
networking technologies and
operational practices.
• They act as a common ground for
meeting peers within the network
community and have “Birds of a
Feather” (BoF) sessions that cover
relevant material to network
operators.
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Network Organisations
The Internet Society (ISOC)
• The Internet Society is both global
and regional.
• Chapter membership allows for
communication and coordination of
relevant topics.
• Global interest groups can
coordinate activities surrounding a
topical item.
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Internet Policy and Regulation
The Internet Society (ISOC)
• The Internet Society’s goal is to
help work on policies that will
benefit the entire Internet and
those that use it.
• It works with policymakers both on
a regional and global level.
• Chapters and members contribute
by both helping to formulate ideas
and messages, and also to deliver
those messages to their respective
government or regulatory bodies.
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Internet Policy and Regulation
ICANN
• ICANN is responsible for setting
policies surrounding the creation
of new Top-Level Domains
(TLDs).
• It is involved with Internet
Governance because of the
country-code TLDs and has
many councils and advisory
committees to assist with
understanding relevant issues.
• The At-Large Advisory
Committee (ALAC) is a global
body made up of individual
Internet users, rather than
organisational interests.
• ICANN offers open comment
periods for many of the items
that their board will vote on.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
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Internet Policy and Regulation
Regional Internet Registries (RIRs)
RIRs allocate IPv4, IPv6 Addresses and
Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs) to their
respective regions.
Currently there are five regions.
The RIRs have created the Number Resource
Organization (NRO) to coordinate policies that
have a global impact.
They develop policies surrounding IP address
and ASNs, including
validity, routability, allocation, and resource
scarcity.
RIR communities are primarily made up from the
ISP and large business sector and academia
however, policy discussion is typically open for
all individuals.
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Putting it All Together
Suggestion:
Start with a focused
approach on what is most
important to you, and then
branch out from there.
Which group should I join?
• This depends on your
personal or professional
interest area.
• Membership doesn’t need
to be limited to one.
• The volume of information
can be overwhelming.