Kim Davies

I work on Internet governance and core infrastructure. Today I lead the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), a central function of ICANN that coordinates the unique identifiers used by every device on the Internet. Some of these notable functions include managing the Internet's root zone, IP address allocation, port numbers and media types, amongst thousands of others. We also support other interoperability functions, like cataloguing and disseminating internationalization and time zone policies.

Select Writing

• The Key to the Internet and Key Ceremonies: An explainer
• There are not 13 root servers
• How global domains can cater for local preferences
• The lives of country-code domains

• Representing Label Generation Rulesets Using XML (RFC 7940)
• Nameservers for the Address and Routing Parameter Area ("arpa") Domain (RFC 9120)

Select Projects

• Internationalized Domain Names for Python

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