Autonomous system
AS10430 WA-K20
Education ARIN
Summary
Washington K-20 Education Network
education research-education-network state k12
WA-K20 is the Washington State K-20 Telecommunications Network, a state-funded education backbone launched in 1996 that connects K-12 school districts, community and technical colleges, public universities and libraries across Washington.
What it's used for
- Aggregating and carrying Internet and inter-campus traffic for the state's whole education sector — "K-20" meaning kindergarten through post-graduate.
- Providing a shared, subsidised path to the commodity Internet (via the Pacific Northwest GigaPOP) so individual districts and colleges don't each have to buy their own transit.
Notable
- Education, and structurally a small R&E backbone rather than an end-site. RIS sees 69 IPv4 prefixes carrying roughly 587,264 addresses plus one IPv6
/32(2607:fa78::/32), with 27 observed BGP neighbours. - Read those numbers together. Twenty-seven neighbours is far too few for a commercial carrier, which would peer with hundreds — but it is far more than the two or three a single campus keeps. That middle band is characteristic of a regional aggregator: it has downstream members as well as upstreams.
- The prefix list is the other tell.
164.116.0.0/16,134.39.0.0/16,168.99.0.0/16and168.212.0.0/16are legacy institutional Class Bs, sitting alongside a long tail of /17s and /19s. That mix is what accumulates when separately-allocated member institutions are gathered under one origin AS over three decades — not what a single organisation is assigned in one go.
Interesting
- Networks like this exist because bulk-buying transit for an entire state's schools is dramatically cheaper than each district negotiating alone.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 92 prefixes · 539K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 93 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS10430- Registry name
- WA-K20
- Registrant
- Washington State K-20 Telecommunications Network
- Abuse contact
- uw-noc@uw.edu
- Registered
- 1997-08-01
- Last changed
- 1997-08-01
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 83% valid · 78 valid, 16 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 16 authorising AS10430
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 94 of 94 announcements
- Route objects
- 72 naming AS10430
Reputation
Classification and threat
Education University, school or national research and education network.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 442 networks and 1,772 prefixes, as published 2026-10-15. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere