AS8409 IITP-AS

IITP-AS belongs to the Institute for Information Transmission Problems

(the A. A. Kharkevich Institute, IITP) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in

Moscow. It is a small academic research network, not a service provider.

What it's used for

• Campus connectivity for the institute: its servers, laboratories and staff. The reverse DNS is unambiguous, with hosts resolving under iitp.ru, including the institute's own nameserver.
• Two prefixes only, roughly 768 addresses in total, with a couple of upstream research-network links.

Notable

• Institutional address space. Addresses here belong to a research institute and its people, not to consumer subscribers or to hosting customers, so they geolocate to a single Moscow campus rather than across a country.
• IITP works on information theory, coding, mathematical linguistics, bioinformatics and neuroscience: the "information transmission" in its name is the Shannon sense, and the institute traces back to the Soviet school of information theory.

Interesting

• Its prefixes still carry maintainer objects from the Russian academic networking bodies that originally connected the Academy of Sciences to the internet, which is the usual pattern for institutes that got online early through a national research network rather than a commercial ISP.