AS6883 Parlamentsdirektion

AS6883 belongs to the Parlamentsdirektion, the administrative directorate of the

Austrian Parliament in Vienna. The registry describes it plainly as the "Network

of the Austrian Parliament".

What it's used for

• The parliament's own institutional network: the Nationalrat and Bundesrat chambers, parliamentary club and committee offices, the parliamentary library and archives, and the directorate's IT department.
• Public-facing parliamentary services such as the legislative record and session material are reached through this space.

Notable

• This is a single-institution government network. There are no subscriber pools and no customer cone; the contacts are the parliament's own IT unit at Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring in Vienna.
• The whole of 161.110.0.0/16 is registered to the directorate under netname OEPARNET with RIPE status LEGACY. A /16 for a single legislature is a striking amount of address space by modern standards, and is a legacy of an era when such assignments were routine.

Interesting

• A national parliament running its own AS number is uncommon. Many legislatures sit inside a government-wide network or behind a ministry's ASN rather than appearing in the global routing table under their own name.