Autonomous system
AS3218 COSMOS-3218-AS AS-COSMOS root
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI)
government research legacy
COSMOS-3218-AS is the root ASN of AS-COSMOS, the network of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI RAN) in Moscow. The RIPE object describes it as the "Russian Space Science Internet".
What it's used for
- Research and institutional networking for IKI and affiliated space-science organisations — mission data, scientific computing, and staff connectivity.
- Acts as the root of an AS family (
AS-COSMOS) covering the wider Russian space science community rather than a single site.
Notable
- Government-research address space: this is a state academy institute, so the network exists to serve scientists and instruments, not paying subscribers.
- The registered address in the RIPE object — Profsoyuznaya Street 84/32, Moscow — is IKI's long-standing campus.
Interesting
- The
COSMOShandle and the low AS number date this to the early years of the Russian internet, when academic and space-science institutions were among the first organisations connected.
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, 4 downstream and 5 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS12722 | RECONN LLC | 1,560 |
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 17 prefixes · 9.47K addresses IPv6 3 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| RU | Russian Federation | 20 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS3218- Registry name
- COSMOS-3218-AS
- Registrant
- Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science "Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences".
- Abuse contact
- abuse@rssi.ru
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2026-02-16
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 83% valid · 20 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 20 authorising AS3218
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 24 of 24 announcements
- Route objects
- 45 naming AS3218
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: 442 networks and 1,771 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