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Hisham Ibrahim | December 2018 | Government Roundtable Riyadh

Regional ReportHisham Ibrahim Middle East Regional Program Manager RIPE NCC

Hisham Ibrahim | Government Roundtable Riyadh | December 2018

• In September 2012, we reached our last /8 of IPv4 space (16 million addresses)

• Existing and future LIRs are now entitled to one final block of 1,024 IPv4 addresses (known as a /22)

• This created an additional incentive for network operators to become LIRs under the RIPE NCC

• In the GCC, we see this mainly in the number of LIRs in Saudi Arabia and the UAE

Growth in the GCC Countries

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Growth in the GCC Countries

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124

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countries BahrainKuwait

OmanQatar

Saudi ArabiaUnited Arab Emirates

3,945,856

1,957,632

9,438,720

927,744

451,584835,840

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5,000

7,500

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2011

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Bahrain Kuwait Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia UAE


• Some organisations are now turning to IPv4 address transfers to obtain additional addresses for their networks or customers

• Observations from the region (since September 2012): - Lebanon is the only country in the region with only internal IPv4 transfers (no

import or export of addresses)

- Jordan, Oman, Syria and Yemen have not exported any IPv4

- Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Yemen have not seen any internal IPv4 transfers

IPv4 Transfers

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• Imports: 3.12 M

• Exports: 8.19 K

• Internal: 48.13 K

• Total IPv4 in Saudi Arabia (roughly): 9.5 M

IPv4 Transfers in Saudi Arabia (Addresses)

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• IPv6 deployment in the Middle East countries is relatively low

• Saudi Arabia has seen a significant move towards adoption over the years

• Adoption in the Levant is still lacking

IPv6

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Routing Between Arab Countries (IPv4 and IPv6)


Routing Between GCC countries (IPv4 and IPv6)


• We operate k.root-servers.net - one of the 13 Internet root name servers

• Servers in the region: - Kuwait City: 2

- Manama: 1

- Doha: 1

- Beirut: 1

The Root Server System

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http://k.root-servers.net

http://k.root-servers.net



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• RIPE Atlas: our main Internet data collection system - a global network of hardware devices, called probes and anchors, that actively measure connectivity

• Routing Information Service: a service we established in 2001 that collects and stores Internet routing data from several locations around the globe

Measurement Tools

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Questions


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