References

General

Network management

Network analysis

• APNIC FAQs
• ISO 3166 codes and regions
• Understanding IP addressing
• World Whois databases
• Working with IP Addresses (from The Internet Protocol Journal)

• Multihoming for the Small ISP
• Responsible Network Management Guidelines
• Exchange Point Information

• Network tools and helpers
• CIDR report

IPv4

IPv6

AS numbers

• RFC 2050 Internet Registry IP allocation guidelines
• More IPv4 RFCs at RFC Sourcebook

• RFC 3513 IP version 6 addressing architecture
• RFC sourcebook An IPv6 aggregatable global unicast address format
• RFC 3177 IAB/IESG recommendations on IPv6 address allocations to sites
• More IPv6 RFCs at RFC 3177

• RFC 1930 guidelines for creation, selection, and registration of an Autonomous System
• RFC 2270 Using a dedicated AS for sites homed to a single provider
• More RFCs at RFC Sourcebook

Regional Internet Registries (RIR)

National Internet Registries (NIRs)

Using RPSL databases and routing registries

• Development of the Regional Internet Registry System
• RIR Comparative policy overview
• RIR allocation and assignment reports
• RIR IPv6 allocations
• AfriNIC
• ARIN
• LACNIC
• RIPE NCC

• APJII
• CNNIC
• JPNIC
• KRNIC/NIDA
• TWNIC
• VNNIC

• RIPE Database Reference Manual
• How to run your own IRR database
• Crypt Calculator
• IRRToolSet
• ASlookup
• RPSL tutorials
• IRR (Internet Routing Registry)
• Recommendations for Internet Routing