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Guide to Administrative Procedures of the Internet Infrastructure

RFC 2901      Administrative Internet Infrastructure Guide   August 2000


Checklist

   This document will explain the following procedures:

   o  Determine your organization type and current status.
   o  Determine your administrative and technical contacts.
   o  Determine your budget (and chargeback system) and choice of
      carriers.
   o  Determine to whom you will connect.
   o  Predict your current and projected address space needs.
   o  Set-up your system to connect.
   o  Request and register your address space allocation.
   o  Request and register an autonomous system number, if needed.
   o  Register with a routing database, if needed.
   o  Register your country's domain name, if needed.
   o  Request and register your IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name, if needed.

Prerequisites

   This document assumes that you have examined different alternatives
   for physical connectivity and will assist you in navigating the
   Internet infrastructure so that you can use that connectivity. In
   choosing your upstream provider, you should consider their ability to
   deal with the Internet infrastructure.

   What will you be doing and what role will you play?

   o  If you are interested in connecting yourself (or a small
      organization), you are an Internet end user.  You will probably
      want to contact an Internet Service Provider (ISP) for most of
      your needs.  Read section I and the first part of section II.

   o  If you are interested in connecting your organization and in
      having address space to distribute within your network, you are an
      Internet high volume end user.  You will need more address space,
      but still may chose to work with an Internet Service Provider
      (ISP) for most of your needs.  Read sections I and II.

   o  If you are interested in connecting your organization, and in
      distributing addresses to your clients (who are end users), you
      are an Internet Service Provider (ISP).  You will need to contact
      a Local Internet Registry (if one is available, or your upstream
      provider).  Read section I and continue reading the rest of this
      document.







Wenzel, et al.               Informational