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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.