Autonomous system
AS6122 ICN-AS
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Iowa Communications Network
education research government legacy
ICN-AS is the Iowa Communications Network, an independent state agency that runs Iowa's statewide fibre-optic network. It is a public network serving institutions, not a commercial ISP selling to the general public.
What it's used for
- Data, internet, security and voice service to the users the Iowa Code authorises: K-12 schools, higher education, hospitals and clinics, state and federal government offices, National Guard armories, and public libraries.
- The network spans all 99 Iowa counties, and its address footprint reflects that scale: several class-B-sized blocks including
165.206.0.0/16,209.56.0.0/16,207.28.0.0/16,207.165.0.0/16and205.221.0.0/16, totalling well over 300,000 IPv4 addresses.
Notable
- Addresses here are institutional, not residential: an IP in this space is far more likely to be a school, a clinic, a library or a state office than a home. Ordinary Iowans get their home broadband from commercial carriers, not from the ICN.
- The mix of eligible users means the same ASN carries education, healthcare and government traffic at once, which makes any single-label classification of the space imperfect.
- ARIN's registration for the ASN dates to November 1995, matching the network's early-1990s build-out.
Interesting
- The ICN was authorised in 1989 and became operational in 1993, originally built to carry full-motion video to every county in the state for distance learning. It was a statewide fibre project years ahead of most of the country. It has not taken a General Fund appropriation for network operations since FY2004, running instead on what its users pay it.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Chicago | Chicago, United States | 208.115.137.202 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Dallas | Dallas, United States | 206.223.118.116 |
Transit providers
6 upstream, 17 downstream and 34 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 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 87 prefixes · 377K addresses IPv6 25 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 112 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6122- Registry name
- ICN-AS
- Registrant
- Iowa Communications Network
- Abuse contact
- abuse@icn.state.ia.us
- Registered
- 1995-11-17
- Last changed
- 2023-12-12
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 69% valid · 11 valid, 5 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 9 authorising AS6122
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 16 of 16 announcements
- Route objects
- 20 naming AS6122
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: 440 networks and 1,773 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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