Autonomous system
AS15192 INSTITUT-DE-TECHNOLOGIE-AGROALIMENTAIRE-DU-QUEBEC
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Institut de technologie agroalimentaire du Quebec
education research business
The AS handle spells the whole institution out, word for word, in hyphens.
What it's used for
- An agri-food technology institute's network. A single IPv4
/23announced from Canada, no IPv6, and one observed BGP neighbour.
Notable
- The AS handle is the institution's complete name with every word joined by hyphens, the longest handle seen anywhere in this range.
- The netname is the opposite extreme: a four-letter acronym of that same name, with nothing appended.
- The registrant repeats the full name a third time, so the record holds the longest and shortest possible forms of one string.
- Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
- Five hundred addresses behind a single upstream is the whole footprint.
Interesting
- Handles are meant to be short identifiers, and this one is a sentence. It works, which shows the field has no practical limit, and it is unusable in the places handles actually appear, which is why nobody else does it.
- Between the handle and the netname there is no middle form. Anything matching these records has to cope with an acronym and its full expansion being equally authoritative, with no rule connecting them.
- One block and one upstream: a small institution routing its own space so that its addresses outlast its provider contracts.
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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS376 | Reseau dInformations Scientifiques du Quebec RISQ Inc. | 118 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-26, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 512 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS15192- Registry name
- INSTITUT-DE-TECHNOLOGIE-AGROALIMENTAIRE-DU-QUEBEC
- Registrant
- Institut de technologie agroalimentaire du Quebec
- Abuse contact
- vincent.breton@itaq.ca
- Registered
- 2023-03-07
- Last changed
- 2023-03-07
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 2 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS15192
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 6 naming AS15192
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
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: 445 networks and 1,817 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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