Autonomous system
AS7637 SLVTSD-AS-AP State Library Of Victoria
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
State Library Victoria
government legacy
SLVTSD-AS-AP is State Library Victoria, the state library of Victoria at 328 Swanston Street, Melbourne. AS7637 is its autonomous system, and it is one of the more unusual institutional ASNs in the Australian registry.
What it's used for
- The library's own network, and the address space it inherited from Vicnet. Its APNIC records still carry the line that Vicnet is "a government funded ISP providing access for libraries, community organisations and individuals".
- Roughly 9,700 IPv4 addresses across six prefixes, the largest being
202.137.64.0/19. Every one of them is registeredSTATELIBVIC-AUto the library itself. - Transit comes from AARNet, Australia's academic and research network, and a commercial carrier. Sitting behind AARNet is the tell of a public research and cultural institution rather than a commercial network.
Notable
- This is institutional address space belonging to a state cultural body. It is not a consumer ISP and it has no subscriber pools, so an address here should be read as a library or government system, not a home user.
- The Vicnet framing in the registry is a historical artefact. Vicnet ran as a business unit of the library from 1994 and was closed in 2014; the AS and the address space stayed with the library.
Interesting
- Vicnet was one of the earliest public-access internet services in Australia, and it is the reason a library holds an AS number and a
/19at all. Very few libraries anywhere ended up as their own ISP.
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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.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-26, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 6 prefixes · 9.73K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AU | Australia | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS7637- Registry name
- SLVTSD-AS-AP
- Registrant
- State Library of Victoria
- Abuse contact
- gduff@slv.vic.gov.au
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2022-04-01
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 6 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 6 authorising AS7637
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 6 of 6 announcements
- Route objects
- 47 naming AS7637
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: 445 networks and 1,817 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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