IP Addresses

• actual assignments performed by regional registries

  non-profit geographically based organizations
  
  ARIN, RIPE, APNIC
  additional registries expected

• IANA

  cooperates in establishing allocation guidelines
  

  e.g. RFC 2050 (Nov 1996) INTERNET REGISTRY IP ALLOCATION GUIDELINES
  

  reviews complaints about registries
  allocates blocks of addresses to registries

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