AS16461 ASN-UTEP

The handle abbreviates the university to four letters; the netname spells the city out and drops the university.

What it's used for

• A university's network. One IPv4 prefix announced from the United States, no IPv6, sixty-five thousand five hundred and thirty-six addresses, through two observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The AS handle begins with three letters for an autonomous system number and then four initials, one for each significant word of the name. The letters for the system number are redundant with the record they sit in.
• The netname takes a different route to the same place: two initials for the university system, then the city in two hyphenated words. It keeps the place and discards the institution.
• The holder field opens with a definite article. The registrant field on the block drops it, so the two names differ by one word.
• The entire announcement is one block at the largest prefix size in common use.
• Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• A university system with campuses in many cities has to disambiguate somewhere, and the registry does it twice, differently. One field keeps the institution and abbreviates the place; the other keeps the place and abbreviates the institution.
• An article at the front of a legal name is the kind of detail that survives in one database field and gets typed away in the next. Both records are correct; neither matches the other.
• Sixty-five thousand addresses behind two upstreams and nothing published in reverse DNS is a campus that looks inward.