Autonomous system
AS16278 ACCENTURE-LABS
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
WorldStream
hosting business transit
The AS handle names a global consultancy; every other field names a hosting provider.
What it's used for
- A hosting provider's research network. Three prefixes announced from the Netherlands, one of them IPv6, one thousand two hundred and eighty addresses, through forty observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The AS handle is a consultancy's brand and the word for laboratories. The holder field is the hosting provider's brand and the same word, followed by the company's legal suffix, so only the second half of the two labels agrees.
- Both IPv4 blocks use the provider's own scheme: a country code, the brand, and a full date, eight years apart.
- Each block lists three contacts: the company, a role with a three-letter suffix that appears in no other field, and an abuse role.
- Forty observed neighbours is a peering count far out of proportion to the size of the network.
- The routing record begins two decades after the number's range was issued, so this number was used for something else, or nothing, for most of its life.
- Six addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- A number that changes hands keeps its old handle until somebody files to change it, and nothing breaks if nobody does. The handle is the last trace of the previous holder and the first thing a reader sees.
- Laboratory networks exist to peer. Forty neighbours on a small block is the whole point: the addresses are there to have somewhere to route, and the connections are the product.
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
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| The Frys Internet Exchange | Frysian, Netherlands | 2001:7f8:10f::3f96:201 |
Transit providers
7 upstream, 0 downstream and 11 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 1.28K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NL | Netherlands | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS16278- Registry name
- WORLDSTREAM-LABS
- Registrant
- MNT-WORLDSTREAM
- Abuse contact
- abuse@worldstream.nl
- Registered
- 2015-08-19
- Last changed
- 2026-06-17
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 3 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS16278
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 3 naming AS16278
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: 431 networks and 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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