The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) oversees global IP address allocation. IANA delegates allocations of IP address blocks to Regional Internet Registries (RIR). Each RIR represents a geographical area. Some examples of RIRs are as follows: ■ ARIN: American IPv6 Registration Services (http://www.arin.net) ■ APNIC: Asia Pacific Network Information Center http://www.apnic.net) ■ RIPE: European Regional […]