# Koch Industries American multinational conglomerate owned by the Koch family. Koch Equity Development, the family's investment arm, owns [[wiki/Iconectiv|Iconectiv]], which controls telephone numbering infrastructure, [[wiki/Number Portability|Local Number Portability]], and [[wiki/STIR-SHAKEN|STIR/SHAKEN]] caller ID authentication for twelve or more countries — a piece of [[wiki/Bell Labs|Bell Labs]]' original nervous system under a name few recognize. Referenced in [[articles/Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power|Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power]].