Registry politics

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Registry politics

• Geert Jan de Groot

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Disclaimer

• Used to work for one of the regional registries
  (RIPE NCC)
• No longer working for RIPE NCC
• Only talking on my own behalf - not officially
  representing RIPE NCC
• Things may have changed since I left YMMV,
  objects in the mirror

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What is a registry

• Assignment and registration of globally unique
  numbers needed to build Internet networks
• IP numbers
• AS numbers
• DNS names provided by other registry
• In past, InterNIC provided names numbers in USA
• Now split up (ARIN, Network Solutions)

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What is a registry (contd)

• Trying to assign limited amount of space in a
  responsible and fair manner
• Not only need to address address space depletion,
  but also restrictions in routing technology
• These days, routing restrictions more important
  than depletion
• Must be impartial use objective means for
  request evaluation

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What is a registry (con)

• Lobby with government bodies (sigh)
• This talk focuses on RIPE NCC
• Details may be different for other registries
• Overview only RIPE / AfriNIC provide training

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The big picture
ICANN
APNIC
RIPE NCC
ARIN
LACNIC
AfriNIC
ISP1
ISP 2
ISP3
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So you want address space?

• Limited amount of address space globally
  available
• Address space NOT depleted
• Stories about death of Internet exaggerated
• Need to motivate address space request
• Using addressing plan

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Addressing plan

• List of amount of hosts (now, 1yr, 2yr) per
  subnet
• Used to determine subnet size
• Used to check deployment plans
• Provide better documentation on network plans
• No longer enough to claim to build large network
  without providing details

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Aggregation reservation

• People want to reserve space for future expansion
• Almost never works out the way it was planned
• People want to reserve space for aggregation
• With 70K routes on global Internet (and
  aggregating the address space on your borders),
  not sure how this is useful

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Reservation does not work

• If reservation too liberal, then address space
  wasted
• Very few class Bs are close to effective
  utilization today
• If reservation too strict, then need additional
  space
• Negates the aggregation argument

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Aggregation route filtering (RIPE NCC)

• When becoming a registry, NCC will allocate a /21
  prefix
• You can start announcing /21
• will get past prefix length filters
• Upon proper motivation approval, address space
  will be assigned
• From your /21 allocation
• Hence proper aggregation

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So you want an AS-number?

• Need to document who youre peering with
• Need to mention AS numbers of at least 2 peers
• If AS number not known yet (starting an IX?),
  then document

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So who controls the RIPE NCC?

• RIPE NCC association controlled by board existing
  of RIPE NCC customers (actually, members)
• So, RIPE NCC controls you, but you control RIPE
  NCC
• Keeps organization impartial neutral
• Makes Internet industry self-governing

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References

• See ftp//ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/,
  http//www.ripe.net
• RIPE NCC actually provides registry course for
  all this
• People from RIPE NCC, ARIN APNIC will be here
  this week