Kim Davies reports ICANN have hung various maps of the Internet in their head office. They range from complex to simple. A map that has not been hung on the wall but passed through e-mail is someone’s interpretation of IANA’s IPv4 address space registry. In the registry, IANA coordinate IP address space primarily by assigning big blocks to the Regional Internet Registries for allocating further.

Kim writes "given this, I got to thinking - what if we took the same algorithm used in the hand-drawn map, but plugged in the true allocation data and graphed it to a much more detailed level? After a little time spent fussing around…"