Autonomous system
AS6262 CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Unclassified ARIN
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.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AU | Australia | 72 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- 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
- 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