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Acronym: RIR
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regional Internet registry
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any specific organization, and IP packets addressed by them cannot be transmitted onto the public Internet. Anyone may use these addresses without approval from a regional Internet registry (RIR). If such a private network needs to connect to the Internet, it must use either a network address translator (NAT) gateway, or a proxy server. The most common use of these addresses is in |
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Acronym: IETF
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Internet Engineering Task Force
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tomers, which reduces the impact to the Internet of such misconfigured or malicious hosts on the customer's network. ==Private IPv4 address spaces== The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has directed the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) to reserve the following IPv4 address ranges for private networks, as published in RFC 1918: {| class="wikitable" ! RFC19 |
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Acronym: DHCP
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Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
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the ''link-local address range'' codified in RFC 5735 and RFC 3927. The utility of these addresses is in self-autoconfiguration by network devices when Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) services are not available and manual configuration by a network administrator is not desirable. In IPv4, the block 169.254/16 is reserved for this purpose, with the exception of the first and the |
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Acronym: WSIS
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World Summit on the Information Society
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d develops recommendations on Internet Policy relating to the system of IP addressing and advises the ICANN Board on these matters. * World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) : As part of the NRO, the RIPE NCC was actively involved in the WSIS. * Internet Governance Forum (IGF) : As part of the [[Number Res |
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