
ARIN (North America and parts of the Caribbean).AfriNIC (Africa and parts of the Indian Ocean).(RIRs) to distribute the large blocks of IP addresses among the RIRs. It works with the Regional Internet Registries We maintain a high-level registry of IP addresses. IPv6 addresses are 128-bit numbers and are conventionally expressed using hexadecimal strings (for example, 2001:db8::abc:587). Many circumstances it is impractical to deal with them individually,Īnd instead one deals with ranges (or "blocks") of IPv4 addresses.įor example, one may be interested in the range of 256 IPv4 addressesĭeployment of the IPv6 protocol began in 1999. Given that there are over 4 billion individual IPv4 addresses, in Each individual number in a dotted decimal ranges in value from 0 to 255, and thus, in dotted decimal notation, IP addresses range from 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255. Instead, they are usually represented by the familiar "dotted decimal" notation, with four decimal numbers separated by periods, for example, 192.0.2.80 or 203.0.13.25. IPv4 addresses are 32-bit numbers that range from 0 to 4,294,967,295 but they are almost never used or seen in that form. Initially deployed on 1 January 1983 and is still the most commonly In active use: IP version 4 (IPv4) and IP version 6 (IPv6). Currently there are two types of IP addresses Numbers it records, nor, in general, do we have the authority toĬhange the values we record. We do not provide any network services to any end It is important to realize that we are not an ISP in any way, and Variety of Protocol Numbers (see and several In addition to IP addresses, we also serve as a registry for a
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Records is determined by a variety of engineering and other considerations. Numbers for other organizations the choice of what goes into these It means that the IANA service keeps authoritative records concerning various The word "authority" in the IANA name is perhaps a bit misleading: This document was written to explain our role and to provide some pointers that may be useful We provide, it is not an ISP, and we have no control over the use of any Internet Protocol (IP)Īddresses except the very few that are directly tied to the domain name.

IANA is a set of record-keeping functions Is not actually useful in dealing with the abuse incident. In virtually all such cases, the association of the IANA name with a particular address IANA name associated in some way with that address. Most frequently, people make these reports because they have found an Internet addressĪssociated with the abusive activity, and through a bit of research, they find the We receive many reports of spam, apparent hacker activity, and other forms of abuse. Abuse Issues and IP Addresses Introduction
