# Global Internet **URL:** \ **Category:** home network\ **Tags:** network\ **Created:** [March 15, 2022, 1:44am UTC](https://discuss.88.io/t/global-internet/563 "2022-03-15T01:44:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![admin](https://discuss.88.io/user_avatar/discuss.88.io/admin/32/38_2.png) [@admin](https://discuss.88.io/u/admin)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 1:44am UTC](https://discuss.88.io/t/global-internet/563/1 "2022-03-15T01:44:03Z")
It pays to spend a few minutes of your digital life to learn a little bit about organisations that are in charge of managing the basic underlying identities of the Internet - the IP networks and addresses. All devices on the internet rely on them to find out who is where, so data can be delivered the the right party. # Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) The internet identities of whole world is handled by only 5 organisations. ![RIR_Regions_map-01](https://discuss.88.io/uploads/default/original/2X/2/290ebdd2442504544397c099f9c17365e08ed720.png) 1. [https://afrinic.net/](https://afrinic.net/) 2. [https://www.apnic.net](https://www.apnic.net) 3. [https://www.arin.net/](https://www.arin.net/) 4. [https://www.lacnic.net/](https://www.lacnic.net/) 5. [https://www.ripe.net/](https://www.ripe.net/) # Global Organisations > **[nro-relationship-iana.pdf](https://www.apnic.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/nro-relationship-iana.pdf)** > > 431.86 KB 1. [https://www.iana.org/](https://www.iana.org/) 2. [https://www.nro.net/](https://www.nro.net/) ---
**Author:** ![admin](https://discuss.88.io/user_avatar/discuss.88.io/admin/32/38_2.png) [@admin](https://discuss.88.io/u/admin)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2023, 2:01am UTC](https://discuss.88.io/t/global-internet/563/2 "2023-02-06T02:01:54Z")
# Autonomous System Number Internet's core data traffic routing protocol, the [Border Gateway Protocol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Gateway_Protocol) (BGP), uses [Autonomous System Number](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet)) to identity different networks. There are currently about 92000 organisations with ASN, about 77000 have only one ASN, [88.io](http://88.io) is one of the remaining about 15000 organisations that have more than one ASN. A ranking of global ASN is available here: > **[AS Rank: A ranking of the largest Autonomous Systems (AS) in the Internet.](https://asrank.caida.org/)** # Your ASN To find out the [Autonomous System Number](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet)) of your current IP address, simple click on [https://id.88.io/ip/](https://id.88.io/ip/) Currently [88.io](http://88.io) is using the following [Autonomous System Number](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet)) range: 1. AS133758 - Public ASN for normal unicast traffic 2. AS133175 - Public ASN for [anycast traffic](https://discuss.88.io/t/network-anycast-service/268) 3. AS65000 - Private ASN for development 4. AS65001 - Private ASN for aunsw mesh There is an official range of ASN reserved for [Private Use](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc6996/): - **16-bit:** AS64512 - AS65534 - **32-bit:** AS4200000000 - AS4294967294 Currently [88.io](http://88.io) has reserved: - AS65000 to AS65500 for [Citizen Ecosystems](https://citizenecosystem.com) - AS4210000000 to AS4290000000 for [Area Entities](https://areaentity.com) They are assigned from the lowest number towards the highest number on a first come first served basis. # BGP Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) plays an important role in the functioning of Virtual Private Mesh. References: - [BGP vs OSPF](https://www.catchpoint.com/dynamic-routing-protocols/bgp-vs-ospf) ---
**Author:** ![admin](https://discuss.88.io/user_avatar/discuss.88.io/admin/32/38_2.png) [@admin](https://discuss.88.io/u/admin)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2023, 3:03am UTC](https://discuss.88.io/t/global-internet/563/3 "2023-02-09T03:03:53Z")
# IP Address ## IP Spoofing IP addresses can be spoofed for DoS attack, to help identify networks that do not perform source address filtering, [CAIDA Spoofer](https://www.caida.org/projects/spoofer/) can be ran on all our mesh nodes if the owner enables it.