Welcome to
INET MEA
Cairo, Egypt
8 May 2005
Mirjam Kühne, ISOC
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Internet Society – Who we are
• Founded 1991 by Internet Pioneers
• International, not-for-profit, membership org.
– 150+ organisation members
– 20,000+ individual members
– 60+ chapters, 20+ chapters forming
• Organisation members fund activities in
– Standards
– Education
– Public Policy
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ISOC – Mission
"To assure the open development, evolution
and use of the Internet for the benefit of all
people throughout the world."
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ISOC – Activities
• Support for Internet Standards (IETF)
• Transfer of technical knowledge
• Education in technologically emerging countries
• Education of policy & decision makers
• Manage subsidiary to run .org
• Building active global community of
knowledgeable members & chapters
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The Internet
How it works, Why it works, Who
makes it work?
http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/
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Internet Infrastructure
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Infrastructure Roles
• Each component plays specific role
– responsible for different tasks and communities
– common principles and goals shared
• Components highly interdependent
– require coordination
– but NO central control good or necessary
• Diversity good for stability and resilience
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Infrastructure Roles (2)
• Development
– Technical Standards (IETF)
– Capacity and knowledge base (ISOC)
• Administration
– Allocation of IP addresses (RIRs)
– Delegation of domain names (gTLDs, ccTLDs)
– Registry of names, numbers, protocols (IANA, ICANN)
• Operation
– Root server operators
– Connectivity providers (ISPs, Exchange Points)
– Service and application providers
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Development of Technical Standards
• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
• Formed 1986
• Individuals not companies or governments
• Runs on: “rough consensus and running
code”
• Liaison and cooperation with
– ITU-T, ISO, ATM Forum, W3C, 3GPP, IEEE
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Development of Capacity
• Internet Society (ISOC)
– transfer of technical knowledge
– education in technologically emerging countries
– education of policy & decision makers
• Network Training Workshops since 1992
• Support of local/regional initiatives (e.g.
AfNOG & AfriNIC)
• Workshops for ccTLD operators
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Administration of IP & AS Numbers
• Necessary for Internet connectivity
• Numbers get allocated from
– IANA to RIRs to ISPs to users
• RIRs non-for-profit membership organisations
– AfriNIC, APNIC, ARIN, LACNIC, RIPE NCC
http://www.isoc.org/briefings/021
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Administration of Domain Names
• IANA maintains DB with all TLDs
– gTLDs (.org .net .info ...)
– ccTLDs (.gh .de .cn ...)
• Registries maintain specific TLD
• Registrars delegate to next level
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Operation of Root Servers
• Publish root zone file
– lists all TLDs and their IP addresses (small file)
• Servers operated by many organisations
– not volunteers
– highly professional, responsible and reliable
– servers in more than 80 countries
http://www.isoc.org/briefings/019
http://www.isoc.org/briefings/020
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Operation of Networks
• Connectivity Providers
– ISP’s responsible for their own network
– coordinate with other ISPs so that
customers/users can reach whole Internet
– Internet Exchange Points
• Application & Service Providers
– Web, email, content providers
http://ispcolumn.isoc.org/2005-01/interconns.html
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Agenda
10:45 – 12:15
1. ICANN: Internationalisation and Technical
Stewardship of the Internet
Speaker: Theresa Swinehart, General Manager, Global
Partnerships, ICANN
2. RIR Operations
Speakers: Axel Pawlik, General Manager, RIPE NCC
Adiel Akplogan, CEO, AfriNIC
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Agenda
12:45 – 14:15
3. UAENIC at a Glance - Root server and ccTLD
operations
Speaker: Abdulla Hashim, UAENIC
4. Interconnections and Internet Exchange Points
Speaker: Didier R. Kasole, KINIX
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Agenda
15:45 – 18:00
5. The Internet Society: Internet Standards, Education
and Policy
Speaker: Lynn St.Amour, President and CEO, ISOC
6. Internationalising the Internet
Speaker: Mirjam Kühne, ISOC
(material provided by John Klensin)
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Further Reading
http://www.isoc.org/news/
– “The genius of the Internet”
– “Governance is a misnomer”
– “Internet works through coordination and open consensus”
http://www.isoc.org/briefings/
– DNS explained for non-experts
– DNS root servers explained for Non-Experts
– The Regional Internet Registry Structure
http://ispcolumn.isoc.org/
– Where’s the Money? Interconnection and financial settlements
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