AFRINIC EXTENDED ALLOCATION AND ASSIGNMENT REPORTS ___________________________________________________________________ (version 2.00 September 2012) Contents: 1. About these reports 2. Conditions of use 3. Statistics format 1. ABOUT THESE REPORTS ____________________________________________________________________ The directory ftp://ftp.afrinic.net/pub/stats/afrinic/ contains daily summary reports of the dispositions of numeric Internet address resources within ranges originally delegated to AFRINIC and historical ranges transferred to AFRINIC by other registries. The resources reported are: - IPv4 address ranges (IPv4) - IPv6 address ranges (IPv6) - Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs) These reports are produced as part of a joint Regional Internet Registry (RIR) project to provide consistent and accessible Internet resource statistics to the global community. It is hoped these reports will lead to increased research and analysis of the global use of address resources. For detailed information on the RIR statistics exchange format, see: http://ftp.afrinic.net/pub/stats/afrinic/RIR-Statistics-Exchange-Format.txt 2. CONDITIONS OF USE ____________________________________________________________________ The files are freely available for download and use on the condition that AFRINIC will not be held responsible for any loss or damage arising from the use of the information contained in these reports. AFRINIC endeavours to the best of its ability to ensure the accuracy of these reports; however, AFRINIC takes no guarantee in this regard. In particular, it should be noted that these reports seek to indicate where resources were first allocated or assigned. It is not intended that these reports be considered as an authoritative statement of the location in which any specific resource may currently be in use. 3. STATISTICS FORMAT ____________________________________________________________________ 3.1 File names ------------------ Each file is named using the format: delegated-afrinic-extended- The most recent file will also be available under the name: delegated-afrinic-extended-latest 3.2 File format ------------------- The file consists of: - comments - file header lines - records Header and record lines are structured as 'comma separated fields' (CSV). Leading and trailing blank text in fields not meaningful. The vertical line character '|' (ASCII code 0x7c) is used as the CSV field separator. After the header lines, records are not sorted. 3.2.1 Comments ---------------- Comments are denoted by # at the beginning of a line. No line-embedded comments are permitted. Comments may occur at any place in the file. Example: # optional comments. # any number of lines. #another optional comment. Blank lines are permitted, and may occur at any place in the file. 3.2.2 File header ------------------- The file header consists of the version line and the summary lines for each type of record. Version line ------------ Format: version|registry|serial|records|startdate|enddate|UTCoffset Where: version format version number of this file, currently 2.1ap; registry as for records and filename (see below); serial serial number of this file (within the creating RIR series); records number of records in file, excluding blank lines, summary lines, the version line and comments; startdate start date of time period, in yyyymmdd format; enddate end date of period in yyyymmdd format; UTCoffset offset from UTC (+/- hours) of local RIR producing file. Summary line ------------ The summary lines count the number of record lines of each type in the file. Format: registry|*|type|*|count|summary Where: registry as for records (see below); * an ASCII '*' (unused field, retained for spreadsheet purposes); type as for records (defined below); count sum of the number of record lines of this type in the file. summary the ASCII string 'summary' (to distinguish the record line); Note that the count does not equate to the total amount of resources for each class of record. This is to be computed from the records themselves. 3.2.3 Records --------------- After the defined file header, and excluding any space or comments, each line in the file represents a single allocation (or assignment) of a specific range of Internet number resources (IPv4, IPv6 or ASN), made by the RIR identified in the record. IPv4 records may represent non-CIDR ranges or CIDR blocks, and therefore the record format represents the beginning of range, and a count. This can be converted to prefix/length using simple algorithms. IPv6 records represent the prefix and the count of /128 instances under that prefix. Format: registry|cc|type|start|value|date|status|opaque-id[|extensions...] Where: registry The registry from which the data is taken. For AFRINIC resources, this will be: afrinic cc ISO 3166 2-letter code of the organisation to which the allocation or assignment was made. May also include the following non-ISO 3166 code: AP - networks based in more than one location in the Asia Pacific region The cc value identifies the country where the resource holder is legally based. However, it is not specified whether this is the country where the IP addresses are used. This value can, therefore, not be reliably used to map IP addresses to countries. type Type of Internet number resource represented in this record. One value from the set of defined strings: {asn,ipv4,ipv6} start In the case of records of type 'ipv4' or 'ipv6' this is the IPv4 or IPv6 'first address' of the range. In the case of an 16 bit AS number, the format is the integer value in the range: 0 - 65535 In the case of a 32 bit ASN, the value is in the range: 0 - 4294967296 No distinction is drawn between 16 and 32 bit ASN values in the range 0 to 65535. value In the case of IPv4 address the count of hosts for this range. This count does not have to represent a CIDR range. In the case of an IPv6 address the value will be the CIDR prefix length from the 'first address' value of . In the case of records of type 'asn' the number is the count of AS from this start value. date Date on this allocation/assignment was made by the RIR in the format: YYYYMMDD Where the allocation or assignment has been transferred from another registry, this date represents the date of first assignment or allocation as received in from the original RIR. It is noted that where records do not show a date of first assignment, this can take the 0000/00/00 value. status Type of record from the set: {available, allocated, assigned, reserved} available The resource has not been allocated or assigned to any entity. allocated An allocation made by the registry producing the file. assigned An assignment made by the registry producing the file. reserved The resource has not been allocated or assigned to any entity, and is not available for allocation or assignment. opaque-id This is an in-series identifier which uniquely identifies a single organisation, an Internet number resource holder. All records in the file with the same opaque-id are registered to the same resource holder. The opaque-id is not guaranteed to be constant between versions of the file. If the records are collated by type, opaque-id and date, records of the same type for the same opaque-id for the same date can be held to be a single assignment or allocation extensions In future, this may include extra data that is yet to be defined. 3.3 Historical resources ---------------------------- Early Registration Transfers (ERX) and AUNIC legacy records do not have any special tagging in the statistics reports. ____________________________________________________________________ If you any questions or comments about these reports, please contact ____________________________________________________________________