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PACKET CLEARING HOUSE

is the international organization responsible for providing operational support
and security to critical Internet infrastructure, including Internet exchange
points and the core of the domain name system.


PACKET CLEARING HOUSE

is the international organization responsible for providing operational support
and security to critical Internet infrastructure, including Internet exchange
points and the core of the domain name system.


INTERNET EXCHANGE POINTS

The task that PCH was first created to address is the building and support of
Internet Exchange Points. IXPs are the places where Internet Service Providers
interconnect their networks, to exchange traffic between their customers and
create Internet bandwidth. PCH assists in the construction of IXPs, and provides
equipment, training, and ongoing support to IXPs and their operators. Over the
past thirty years, PCH has helped build more than half of the world’s IXPs, and
has provided assistance of some sort to more than half of all the world’s IXPs.
PCH also maintains the global directory of IXPs, and publishes statistics about
their use and growth.
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CORE OF THE DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM

PCH has been working since 1995 to make the Domain Name System faster, more
scalable, and more resilient against attack. PCH pioneered the use of DNS
anycast to distribute DNS load among more servers in more places, anycasting
top-level domain nameservers since 1997, and root nameservers since 2001. PCH is
the largest authoritative DNS service network in the world, hosting multiple
root letters and nearly 400 top-level domains on thousands of servers in 296
locations around the world. PCH is also the operator of the only FIPS 140-2
Level 4 DNSSEC signing platform other than the root itself.
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REGULATORY & POLICY

PCH conducts more than 100 workshops each year on Internet regulatory theory,
governance, and economics for audiences ranging from Internet service provider
engineers to communications, economic development, and defense ministers. PCH
also works in conjunction with and in support of other Internet governance
organizations and fora like the global network operators groups, the Internet
Governance Forum, the OECD, ICANN, NetMundial, the Regional Internet Registries,
and many others. PCH also maintains a global calendar of Internet operations and
governance meetings.
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