Autonomous system
AS237 MERIT-AS-14
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Merit Network
research education nren legacy
Merit Network is a non-profit research and education network serving Michigan —
and one of the most historically important organizations on the internet.
What it's used for
- Backbone and internet connectivity for Michigan's universities, schools, libraries, and government (R&E, not consumer).
Notable
- Merit operated the routing and engineering of the NSFNET backbone in the late 1980s and early 1990s — the network that grew into the modern internet — in partnership with IBM and MCI.
- Still a live, member-governed non-profit today, not a relic.
Interesting
- Founded in 1966, Merit predates the internet itself; its name comes from "Michigan Educational Research Information Triad."
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 165 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS237- Registry name
- MERIT-AS-14
- Registrant
- Merit Network Inc.
- Abuse contact
- abuse@merit.edu
- Registered
- 1988-09-12
- Last changed
- 2012-04-02
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere