Autonomous system
AS8 RICE-AS
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Rice University
education university research legacy
One of the oldest allocations on the internet (RICE-AS), serving Rice University in Houston, Texas.
What it's used for
- Campus, research, and administrative networking for the university.
Notable
- A single-digit AS number reflects how early Rice connected, handed out sequentially in the internet's first years. An institutional network, not a commercial ISP.
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.
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 15 prefixes · 462K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 16 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS8- Registry name
- RICE-AS
- Registrant
- Rice University
- Abuse contact
- ipadmin@rice.edu
- Registered
- 1984-03-26
- Last changed
- 1997-11-10
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Rice University
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Open
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
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 16 with no ROA 1 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS8
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 88% registered · 15 of 17 announcements 2 other origin
- Route objects
- 1,874 naming AS8
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: 443 networks and 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-24. 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