AS12628 — SCREAMING-NET-AS London

AS12628 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 256 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

One person, one /24, one IPv6 /48, and an AS number — the smallest complete independent network there is.

What it's used for

• Independent connectivity from London. 256 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix and one IPv6 prefix.

Notable

• The IPv4 block is 194.153.117.0/24, netname BJEONYX-PI, registered to a named individual, Jaco Engelbrecht.
• The IPv6 announcement is 2001:67c:2738::/48, out of the registry's own assignment range.
• The AS handle is SCREAMING-NET-AS London.
• Three sampled addresses were queried and none returned a name.

Interesting

• PI in the netname stands for provider independent, and both blocks here are exactly that: addresses that belong to the holder rather than to whoever currently carries the traffic. Together with an AS number, they are the complete set of things needed to be a first-class participant in Internet routing rather than a customer of one.
• This is the fourth block in this stretch of the number range registered to a person rather than a company. The registry makes no distinction, and neither does BGP: an individual with a /24, a /48 and a number is indistinguishable at the protocol level from a corporation.
• The economics have changed underneath this arrangement. A /24 now costs real money and a registry /48 requires an annual fee, so a holding assembled when both were cheap is worth considerably more than it cost.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.

Announced prefixes

• 194.153.117.0/24
• 2001:67c:2738::/48

Upstream networks

• AS8426 Claranet Limited

Downstream networks

• AS216243 JACO ENGELBRECHT

Adjacent networks

• AS8426 Claranet Limited
• AS216243 JACO ENGELBRECHT