Local Internet Registry (LIR)

Upon request, the ACOnet Local Internet Registry can provide IP-addresses (IPv4 and IPv6) for its customers and partners.

The following details explain the requirements, the associated mechanisms and workflow, costs and validity.

ACOnet is part of the global system to distribute IP-Addresses to its customers and partners. In the interest of the global Internet-Community, this system makes sure that some basic requirements are met. The most important ones are: the request for, and the amount of addresses required, has to be backed up by technical documentation and the distribution paths have to follow an established hierarchy.

At the root IANA http://www.iana.org/ - the operational component of ICANN http://www.icann.org/ - manages the allocation of big blocks of addresses to the 5 Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). Subsequently the RIRs distribute contiguous address ranges to their members (ISPs, having a customer relationship with their RIRs) upon receiving address space requests. The ISPs in turn assign smaller address ranges from these blocks to their customers and to their own internal network segments.

ACOnet, as a customer of the RIPE NCC in Amsterdam, is offering this LIR-Service since 1993.

Further information about LIR is available in the german language page tree.