AS10187 KISDI-AS-KR Korea Information Society Developement Institute

KISDI-AS-KR is held by the Korea Information Society Development Institute, the state ICT and broadcasting policy research institute. Founded in 1985, KISDI sits under the National Research Council for Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences and is funded from the national budget; it is the think tank behind much of Korea's telecoms and broadcasting regulation.

What it's used for

• The institute's own campus and publishing infrastructure: researcher connectivity at its Jincheon site, its public research portal and statistical publications, and internal administrative systems.

Notable

• The kind is government. The word Institute in a name proves nothing on its own — plenty of commercial firms use it — so the classification rests on what KISDI actually is: a government-funded research institute, not a university and not a company. It teaches no students and sells no product.
• The routing is that of a single-site public body. RIS observes one announced prefix, 103.125.108.0/22 — 1,024 addresses — with 2 observed neighbours. One prefix announced whole, no deaggregation, two upstreams for redundancy. There is nothing here that resembles a provider, a hoster or an eyeball network; a thousand addresses behind two transit links is a few hundred staff and a modest server estate.

Interesting

• The 103.x range is a late APNIC allocation, so despite holding an ASN from the 1990s, KISDI announces modern space rather than a big legacy Korean block. That usually means a renumbering, most likely when the institute moved out of Seoul.