Autonomous system
AS5503 RMIFL
Education RIPE Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
RM Education Ltd
isp education legacy
RMIFL belongs to RM Education Ltd, part of the British company RM plc. RM is a long-running supplier of IT and connectivity to UK education, and it has operated as an ISP for schools since the mid-1990s.
What it's used for
- Broadband, leased lines and filtered internet access delivered to UK schools, colleges and multi-academy trusts.
- Safeguarding and filtering infrastructure sits inline with that access, so the AS also carries RM's own content-filtering and security platforms.
Notable
- Although the holder is a commercial company, the address space overwhelmingly serves educational end users. Downstream, these addresses look like school networks, not homes or a datacentre.
- RM peers with the platforms schools actually depend on, and connects into the UK academic networking world, which is why its routing profile looks unlike a general-purpose consumer ISP.
Interesting
- RM began in 1973 as Research Machines, selling microcomputers to schools, and moved into school networking and then connectivity. The AS is a direct descendant of that pivot from hardware to services.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 41 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS5503- Registry name
- RMIFL
- Registrant
- AS5503-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@ifl.net
- Registered
- 2002-08-20
- Last changed
- 2026-08-07
- Status
- active
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- RM Education plc
- Also known as
- Internet for Learning
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Europe
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-RMIFL- Present at
- 3 exchanges
- Facilities
- 2 facilities
- Website
- http://www.rm.com
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Reputation
Classification and threat
Education University, school or national research and education network.
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