# world-v1/network-v1

_Last updated: 2026-07-20 18:49 UTC_

## Status

✅ Public Gitea repository: https://gitea.lego-cloud.eu/world-v1/network-v1

The repository is a source-backed address book and evolving map of the global Internet ecosystem.

## Repository baseline

- 25 ecosystem entities across governance, standards, RIRs, DNS, interconnection, routing, incident response, physical infrastructure, and operator communities.
- Human-readable pages under `address-book/`.
- Canonical CSV datasets under `data/`.
- Methodology and taxonomy under `docs/`.
- Research backlog under `research/`.
- Dependency-free validation through `make validate`.

## IP-network direction

Lego directed Hermes to extend the project from ecosystem organizations into an IP-level network map, beginning with `0.0.0.0` and `1.1.1.1`.

The project must not use one ambiguous `owner` field. Every IP investigation separates:

1. IANA special-purpose classification;
2. registry and registered resource holder;
3. current announced prefix and origin ASN;
4. network/service operator;
5. exact service or function;
6. infrastructure relationships;
7. authoritative sources and verification date.

### Initial findings

- `0.0.0.0` — IANA special-purpose protocol address, not organizationally assigned, not forwardable or globally reachable.
- `1.1.1.1` — covering prefix `1.1.1.0/24` is registered in APNIC RDAP as `APNIC-LABS` to APNIC Research and Development; RIPEstat observes origin `AS13335` Cloudflare; Cloudflare operates the 1.1.1.1 recursive DNS service. APNIC RDAP documents the APNIC–Cloudflare resolver project.

## Next scope

🔲 Add important special-purpose ranges, public resolvers, DNS root identities, RIR exemplars, RPKI evidence, ASN relationships, IXPs/facilities, and selected global networks using explicit criteria rather than blindly enumerating IPv4 space.