What is LACNIC? Internet Numbers? Internet Week Guyana 9/13 October 2017 Pegasus Hotel, Georgetown, Guyana kevon@lacnic.net
Internet Numbers (briefly)
Internet numbers • Internet Protocol Numbers: IPv4 & IPv6 • Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs)
Internet numbers M achi nes use num ber s, but peopl e r em em ber nam es ( dom ai n nam es)
LACNIC: One of five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs)
What is a regional Internet registry (RIR)? A r egi onal I nt er net r egi st r y ( RI R) i s an or gani sat i on t hatm anages t he al l ocat i on and r egi st r at i on of I nt er net num ber r esour ces wi t hi n a par t i cul ar r egi on of t he wor l d. I nt er net num berr esour ces i ncl ude I P addr esses and aut onom ous syst em num ber s ( ASNs) .
Five Regional Internet Registries
Latin American and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry (LACNIC) • Not-for-profit organisation est. In Montevideo, Uruguay (since 2002) • Distribution and administration of number resources • Coordination of policy development within the community for managing resources • Reverse DNS resolution and other tech services • Capacity building and outreach • Cooperation activities
LACNIC Coverage Area Argentina Dominican Republic Panama Aruba Ecuador Paraguay Belize El Salvador Peru Bolivia Falkland Islands Saba Bonaire French Guiana St Eustatius Brazil Guatemala Sint Maarten Chile Guyana South Georgia & South Colombia Haiti Sandwich Islands Costa Rica Honduras Suriname Cuba Mexico Trinidad and Tobago Curaçao Nicaragua Uruguay Venezuela
Who’s who? Community Members Commissions • Broad-based • 6000 approx. • Anyone or any entity with • Often ISPs (allocation) or an interest end-users (assignment) • Electoral • Different categories • Self-regulating • Fiscal • Elect Executive Board • Open, transparent, among peers with right to bottom-up processes (e.g. vote PDPs)
Who’s who? Board of Directors Staff • Wardner Maia (BR) – President • Over 50 professionals • Oscar Messano (AR) – Vice President • Three working languages • Hartmut Glaser (BR) – Treasurer • Nationals from Uruguay, Argentina, Mexico, • Alejandro Guzman (CO) – Deputy Treasurer Brazil, Venezuela, Paraguay, Panama, • Javier Salazar (MX) – Secretary Trinidad and Tobago • Gabriel Adonaylo (AR) – Deputy Secretary • Rafael Ibarra (SV) – Spokesperson • Oscar Robles Garay – Executive Director (ex officio)
Caribbean Members Country No. of Country No. of Code Members Code Members AN 16 GY 8 AW 3 HT 12 BQ 2 SR 5 BZ 21 SX 4 CU 8 TT 12 CW 8 DO 38 =140 Members GF 3
Activities
Key services and activities • Distribution of number resources (registration) • Coordination Policy Development Process (PDP) for number distribution • Reverse DNS and maintaining the WHOIS database • Other technical services (resource certification/RPKI, WARP) • Capacity building and outreach • Development/cooperation projects • Internet Governance
How Internet numbers are distributed globally
How number distribution is governed regionally – the PDP
Mailing lists matter • Policies (politicas@lacnic.net): https://mail.lacnic.net/mailman/listinfo/politicas • Caribbean (caribbean@lacnic.net): https://mail.lacnic.net/mailman/listinfo/caribbean • Women in ICT (it-women@lacnic.net): https://mail.lacnic.net/mailman/listinfo/it-women • Network Security (seguridad@lacnic.net): http://mail.lacnic.net/mailman/listinfo/seguridad • LAC-IX (napla@lacnic.net): http://mail.lacnic.net/mailman/listinfo/napla • FLIP6 (IPv6 Task Force – lactf@lacnic.net): https://mail.lacnic.net/mailman/listinfo/lactf • LACNOG (lacnog@lacnic.net): https://mail.lacnic.net/mailman/listinfo/lacnog
Two Annual Meetings Spring Meeting Annual General Assembly Tech Tutorials IG Panel Forums Special Meetings LACNIC 30 – LACNOG 2018 Fall Meeting 24/28 September 2018 Co-located with LACNOG TBD
Capacity Building Main Topics • IPv6 (10) • Security (3) • LACNIC Services (2) • IoT (2) • IXP • RPKI • Other (3)
(2016) Cantidad de Código País participantes AR Argentina 299 CO Colombia 273 VE Venezuela 212 Cantidad � de � pa í ses � participantes � de � los � cursos CR Costa Rica 188 IPv6 � B á sico �� � y � � � IPv6 � Avanzado MX México 164 EC Ecuador 120 PE Perú 109 UY Uruguay 96 CL Chile 85 PY Paraguay 82 PA Panamá 64 63 BR Brasil CU Cuba 55 BO Bolivia 54 47 GT Guatemala HN Honduras 44 NI Nicaragua 39 29 SV El Salvador DO República Dominicana 26 ES España 6 M é xico Panam á Venezuela 4 BZ Belice Argentina Guatemala Espa ñ a CW Curazao 4 Paraguay Chile Costa � Rica US Estados Unidos 4 Ecuador Colombia Brasil 2 TT Trinidad y Tobago Uruguay Per ú Cuba AW Aruba 1 Honduras Rep ú blica � Dominicana El � Salvador CA Canadá 1 Bolivia Estados � Unidos Nicaragua 1 GF Guayana Francesa Hait í Curazao Belice HT Haití 1 Togo Canad á Aruba TG Togo 1 Trinidad � y � Tobago Guayana � Francesa 2074 TOTAL:
Development Projects - FRIDA Thematic focus - Technical innovation for internet development and access - Community impact through the use of ICT Funding programs - FRIDA Awards, US$5,000 - Grants Program, US$ 20,000-US$30,000 - Scale-up Program, US$40,000 FRIDA has supported projects from Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Dominica, Dominican Republic and Cuba.
Development Projects - FRIDA 2017 Winning Projects - FRIDA Awards - Armonia by Universidad de Oriente de Cuba (US$5,000 + fellowship to IGF2017) - Coding Rights (US$5,000 + fellowship to IGF2017) - FRIDA Grants - National Telecommunications Commission of Dominica Weather Stations using IoT (US$18,500)
Development Projects – Ayitic Goes Global
LACNIC On The Move
Líderes Programme – IG Support LACNIC Website > Community > Internet Governance
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