In Europe, geolocated IPs are distributed by the European IP Networks (RIPE) registry. This open community is responsible for maintaining and participating in the internet’s administrative and technical development. RIPE’s mission is to assign IP blocks to different Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and store the information generated in a public database. In Canada and the United States, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) distributes IPs. ARIN geographical IP addresses can be used in the same way as RIPE IPs. They can be assigned to IP blocks and used as failover IPs.