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The Regional Internet Registry (RIR) is an organization that oversees a registration & allocates IP addresses, both IPv4 and IPv6 and Autonomous System numbers in the certain vicinity of the globe. Viz. there are presently Quintuplet register, completely overseen per Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA):
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) [http://www.arin.net] for North America
RIPE Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC) [http://www.ripe.net] for Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia
Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) [http://www.apnic.net] for Asia and the Pacific region
Latin American and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry (LACNIC) [http://www.lacnic.net] for Latin America and the Caribbean region
African Network Information Centre (AfriNIC) http://www.afrinic.net for Africa
Put together a RIRs form section of the Number Resource Organization [http://www.nro.net/] formed as a body to represent their collective interests & assure that policy statements come coordinated globally.
IANA delegates a allocation of IPv4 addresses to RIRs in heavy chunks (often /8 =Sixteen.7 million addresses or even additional at one time), & a RIRs so watch their have policies for location allocation. It occasionally more delegate location assignment to Internet Service Providers in microscopic chunks, by using a smallest presently existence /22 (=1024).
See Also
Local Internet Registry
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