Autonomous system
AS6262 CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Unclassified APNIC Educational/Research
Summary
CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)
government research legacy
CSIRO — the network of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia's national science agency and one of the largest government research bodies in the country.
What it's used for
- Connects CSIRO's laboratories, research sites and offices across Australia.
- Announces a large legacy footprint — roughly half a million IPv4 addresses, including
150.229.0.0/16-derived space and several early192.xand203.xblocks — plus IPv6 out of2405:b000::/32.
Notable
- A government research network rather than an ISP: the address space serves CSIRO's own scientists and instruments, not paying subscribers.
- The registry history straddles two RIRs. The ASN sat in ARIN's registry and was moved into APNIC as part of the early-registry (ERX) transfers, so ARIN's copy now simply points at APNIC.
Interesting
- CSIRO is well known outside networking for its role in the research behind wireless LAN patents that underpin modern Wi-Fi.
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, 0 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS7575 | Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet) | 4,408 |
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 57 prefixes · 546K addresses IPv6 15 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AU | Australia | 72 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS6262- Registry name
- CSIRO
- Registrant
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
- Abuse contact
- abuse@csiro.au
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2020-06-30
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- CSIRO
- Also known as
- CSIRO
- Network type
- Educational/Research
- Scope
- Australia
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS6262- Website
- http://www.csiro.au
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.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 80 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 67 authorising AS6262
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 80 of 80 announcements
- Route objects
- 118 naming AS6262
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 1,773 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