network-v1/registry-ips/README.md

Global IP range registry

This folder is the human-readable registry of IP knowledge collected by this repository. It is organized by network range, not by one file for every individual address: IPv4 alone contains 4,294,967,296 addresses, and registration and routing facts normally apply to prefixes.

Filename convention

<registry>--<network-address-with-hyphens>--<prefix-length>.md

Examples:

iana--0-0-0-0--8.md
apnic--1-1-1-0--24.md

The parts mean:

• registry: authoritative number registry currently responsible for the record (iana, afrinic, apnic, arin, lacnic, or ripe-ncc);
• network-address-with-hyphens: canonical network address with dots replaced by hyphens;
• prefix-length: CIDR range number without /.

IPv6 filenames use the same rule, with colons replaced by hyphens and compressed notation expanded to avoid ambiguous names.

Current coverage

Range	Registry	Classification	Known exact addresses	Record
0.0.0.0/8	IANA	Special-purpose	0.0.0.0	record
1.1.1.0/24	APNIC	Public unicast	1.1.1.1	record

This is not yet a list of all global ranges. It contains the two ranges investigated so far. The expansion plan is in research/ip-network-roadmap.md.

Required contents

Every range file must distinguish:

1. registry and registered resource holder;
2. special-purpose classification, where applicable;
3. observed BGP announcement and origin ASN;
4. operator and service relationships;
5. exact addresses already investigated inside the range;
6. sources and verification dates.

Do not compress these into a single misleading “owner” field. Registration, routing, operation, and service responsibility can belong to different organizations.