{"id":4783,"date":"2020-08-06T14:06:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T21:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/?p=4783"},"modified":"2020-08-26T23:22:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T06:22:16","slug":"ipv4-history-visualization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/2020\/08\/06\/ipv4-history-visualization\/","title":{"rendered":"IPv4 History Visualization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This visualization shows how the growing demand for those addresses transformed the governance model from a handful of scientists and engineers managing these addresses to the multi-stakeholder governance model we have today. IPv4 (the fourth version of the Internet Protocol) is the governing standard of today&#8217;s Internet. Similar to any other network, unique identifiers play an integral role in Internet routing. We group IP address blocks based on the organization that regulates its allocation as recorded in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iana.org\/assignments\/ipv4-address-space\/ipv4-address-space.txt\">IANA&#8217;s IPv4 address space file<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Request_for_Comments\">RFC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please view the visualization at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caida.org\/publications\/visualizations\/ipv4-history\/\">https:\/\/www.caida.org\/publications\/visualizations\/ipv4-history\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Screenshots of the visualization<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-04-at-6.52.16-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4784 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-04-at-6.52.16-PM-300x164.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-04-at-6.52.16-PM-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-04-at-6.52.16-PM-768x420.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-04-at-6.52.16-PM-1024x560.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-04-at-6.52.16-PM.png 1396w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-04-at-7.26.33-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4787 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-04-at-7.26.33-PM-300x159.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-04-at-7.26.33-PM-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-04-at-7.26.33-PM-768x406.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-04-at-7.26.33-PM-1024x542.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-04-at-7.26.33-PM.png 1355w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-04-at-7.29.17-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4788 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-04-at-7.29.17-PM-300x165.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-04-at-7.29.17-PM-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-04-at-7.29.17-PM-768x422.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-04-at-7.29.17-PM-1024x562.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-04-at-7.29.17-PM.png 1377w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This was created with the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF). For any questions or comments on this project, please contact <a href=\"mailto:info@caida.org\">info@caida.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This visualization shows how the growing demand for those addresses transformed the governance model from a handful of scientists and engineers managing these addresses to the multi-stakeholder governance model we have today. IPv4 (the fourth version of the Internet Protocol) is the governing standard of today&#8217;s Internet. Similar to any other network, unique identifiers play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4,37],"tags":[],"coauthors":[66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4783"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4800,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783\/revisions\/4800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4783"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}