I am curious from what I know
IANA is responsible for keeping track of and handing out all ranges of ip address you can think of them as the root of control for ip address assignment.
Actually controlling ip address assignment is to big of a task for them to even do so they delegated each of the regions to their RIR
which are http://www.iana.org/numbers
Their are 5 RIR's
1) where is the exact location of the IANA and RIR's ?
2) do they have the dns and whois servers at their location or do they delegate to an offsite or other place to take care of dns and whois queries for them? ( or do they just do it / have the computers/power locally at their site)
3) Do ISP providers like comcast or other major top level ISP go directly to the RIR's or IANA to get their ip address ranges or is their some organization between the IANA/RIR's and the top level ISP that I am not aware of?
IANA is responsible for keeping track of and handing out all ranges of ip address you can think of them as the root of control for ip address assignment.
Actually controlling ip address assignment is to big of a task for them to even do so they delegated each of the regions to their RIR
which are http://www.iana.org/numbers
Their are 5 RIR's
QuestionsAfriNIC Africa Region
APNIC Asia/Pacific Region
ARIN North America Region
LACNIC Latin America and some Caribbean Islands
RIPE NCC Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia
1) where is the exact location of the IANA and RIR's ?
2) do they have the dns and whois servers at their location or do they delegate to an offsite or other place to take care of dns and whois queries for them? ( or do they just do it / have the computers/power locally at their site)
3) Do ISP providers like comcast or other major top level ISP go directly to the RIR's or IANA to get their ip address ranges or is their some organization between the IANA/RIR's and the top level ISP that I am not aware of?
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