Summary

  • Limited Liability Company "Bliss-Pro" has a real network identity, not just a directory listing: RIPE records identify it as a Russian LIR, AS203290 is announced, and public routing data shows 1,024 unique IPv4 addresses originated through a small set of visible prefixes.
  • The public record does not prove that the company has a large retail subscriber base. Its registered primary activity is property rental, its public website footprint is thin, and corporate registries show modest revenue with large net losses.
  • The central economic test is whether a local access line, business connection, or managed-service contract pays enough to fund transit, access electronics, customer-premises equipment, installation labour, fault handling and replacement capital.
  • My Elias Ward economic judgment is cautious: Bliss-Pro may be operationally useful where local support and physical access relationships matter, but the published evidence does not yet show a self-funding access platform that can absorb churn, upstream dependency and renewal cycles without relying on underinvestment or non-telecom income.

Start with one connection

The cleanest way to read Bliss-Pro is not to begin with the ASN. Begin with one active connection. A household, small office, building manager or local enterprise pays a recurring fee because a link works, because someone answers when it fails, and because replacement equipment appears before the old kit becomes the reason for churn. That connection has to buy more than bandwidth. It has to buy access switch ports, last-drop repair, customer-premises gear, billing, technical support, power, upstream transit, spare inventory and the right to use regulated communications infrastructure.

That is a demanding unit-economic test for a regional ISP. The public evidence around Bliss-Pro shows that the company is not imaginary. It has a Russian legal identity, a RIPE organisation object, an autonomous-system number, public IPv4 space and communications-license records. The question is whether those assets form an economic engine or only a survivable operational shell. A small ISP can look substantial in network registries because address space and an ASN are visible, while its revenue base may be too narrow to refresh equipment or to withstand a national carrier's promotional pricing.

Conversely, a small ISP can be valuable in a particular locality because it knows buildings, roads, ducts, rooftops and customers better than a remote national call centre. The public record does not decide that question on its own. It gives the constraints.

The constraint that matters most is scale. RIPE and BGP data show AS203290 announcing six route entries, but those entries overlap inside a 1,024-address IPv4 allocation. The visible routing estate is therefore small: four /24s by address count, with /23 aggregates also visible. That is enough for a modest access operator, a managed-service provider, a hosting niche or a mixed telecom-and-property-services company. It is not, by itself, proof of a wide residential platform. With carrier-grade NAT, 1,024 IPv4 addresses can support more than 1,024 retail accounts, but it also creates operational obligations.

Address reputation, abuse handling, lawful-intercept compliance, logging, customer support and equipment monitoring all become part of the cost of each account.

The connection also has to carry churn risk. In and around Zubtsov, public tariff aggregators and operator pages show the customer has substitutes. There are low-entry residential offers around 500 rubles per month, promotional or annualized offers near that level, 100 Mbps and bundled TV packages around the mid-hundreds of rubles, and national-brand substitutes with equipment and security bundles. For private-house and office service, the market can tolerate higher fees, but those customers also expect faster repairs and clearer accountability. Bliss-Pro's opportunity is therefore not "internet access" in the abstract.

It is the narrower chance to be worth more than the cheapest mass-market alternative because it controls local installation, response and continuity.

Identity and control boundary

The legal entity behind the public routing record is Limited Liability Company "Bliss-Pro". Russian corporate sources tie the company to OGRN 1037739282965, INN 7734247484 and a Moscow legal address at 19 Leninskaya Sloboda. The company was registered in June 2002, and the OGRN record dates from January 2003. RIPE's organisation object uses the same OGRN as its registration number, identifies the entity as a Russian LIR, and places the organisation at the same Leninskaya Sloboda address. That alignment matters.

It reduces the risk that the article is mixing a network record, a domain, and an unrelated business with a similar name.

The control boundary is still narrow. Corporate aggregators identify Oksana Viktorovna Polishchuk as manager and 100 percent owner, with a management or ownership change in 2022 from the earlier Fatkullin record. The registered charter capital is small at 50,000 rubles. The public records that were accessible for this research do not show subsidiaries, large public tenders, a disclosed strategic investor or a broad management team. The company is treated as a microbusiness by Russian SME references. Employee-count evidence is not perfectly consistent: one source reports five employees, while another shows four.

The exact count is less important than the direction. This is a small operating base.

That small-control profile cuts both ways. A tightly controlled local operator can make fast service decisions and survive in a locality where customers buy from people rather than from a national brand. It can also become fragile if one owner-manager relationship, one technical lead or one outside supplier carries too much of the practical knowledge. The public record does not reveal who maintains the access network, how many field technicians are available, or whether spares are held locally. For a buyer of connectivity, those missing facts are more important than the company age.

A 2002 registration date says the shell has endured; it does not prove that the current service platform is renewed.

There is also a business-model ambiguity. The current primary OKVED activity reported by multiple corporate sources is property rental and management, not telecom. Communications activities appear as additional activity codes, including wired telecommunications and IP-telephony-related data transmission. That does not mean the telecom business is false. Many small infrastructure businesses have mixed legal activity profiles, and property or facility relationships can be commercially relevant to access networks. But it does mean revenue cannot be safely read as retail broadband revenue.

If part of the revenue comes from property activity, the apparent telecom scale is smaller than the headline income. If property relationships help secure access to buildings, the telecom margin may be better than a pure outsider's. The record does not allocate revenue by segment, so the economic analysis has to treat all customer-count estimates as scenarios rather than facts.

What the network record proves

The network evidence is the strongest part of the case. RIPE's organisation record identifies Limited Liability Company "Bliss-Pro" as ORG-LLC27-RIPE, a Russian LIR created in 2012 and last modified in May 2026. The RIPE aut-num object identifies AS203290 with the AS name asbliss, status ASSIGNED, created in February 2016 and last modified in September 2018. It lists import and export policy toward AS12389 and AS198297. The inetnum record for 185.15.84.0 through 185.15.87.255 assigns the block to RU-BLISSPRO-20130110, marks it ALLOCATED PA, and links it to the same RIPE organisation.

RIPEstat's live view at the query time was more economically revealing than the static aut-num policy. The AS overview marked AS203290 as announced. The announced-prefixes endpoint returned 185.15.84.0/23, 185.15.86.0/23 and the four /24s 185.15.84.0/24, 185.15.85.0/24, 185.15.86.0/24 and 185.15.87.0/24 during the two-week query window ending 29 July 2026. The routing-status endpoint counted six IPv4 prefixes, 1,024 unique IPv4 addresses, no IPv6 prefixes, no IPv6 /48s and one observed neighbour.

The as-routing-consistency check found every listed prefix in both BGP and whois, while AS198297 was visible in both the routing table and the policy record and AS12389 was present in whois policy but not visible in BGP for the query time.

That pattern is economically specific. Bliss-Pro has a live route identity with registry consistency. It is not merely holding dormant addresses. But its current visible upstream diversity appears limited. A whois policy line toward Rostelecom may indicate a planned, historic, backup or contractual relationship. RIPEstat did not see it as a live BGP neighbour at the query time. The only observed neighbour was consistent with JSC "Ul-Com Media". In plain language, the public routing table points to a single effective upstream dependency at the time checked.

For a small access operator, one effective upstream is not automatically a fatal flaw. Many local providers buy transit from one regional carrier, especially where the alternative is expensive or physically unavailable. The problem is that one upstream compresses the service promise. If the upstream raises price, changes routing, suffers an outage, imposes a filter, delays support, or becomes commercially constrained, Bliss-Pro has less visible redundancy to offer customers. The company could have private physical backup, offline standby service, or a second link that was not visible in RIPEstat's snapshot.

The public record cannot verify it. Investors, customers and counterparties should therefore treat upstream diversity as an open diligence item, not as a solved feature.

The IPv6 absence also matters. Some third-party databases report the AS with no visible IPv6 routes, while one IP-location source associates a large IPv6 block with the AS in its general table. RIPEstat's current routing-status and RIS-prefix view showed zero originated IPv6 prefixes. The safest reading is that there was no visible IPv6 originated space in the checked routing data. In 2026, lack of visible IPv6 does not prevent a Russian local ISP from selling working internet access, but it does speak to network modernization.

IPv6 support reduces pressure on scarce IPv4, improves end-to-end capability for some applications, and signals that the operator has kept the platform current. If Bliss-Pro has IPv6 planned or internally available, it is not obvious from the public routing view used here.

What the network record does not prove

The network record does not prove subscriber count, revenue quality, service-level performance or access-medium ownership. It does not show whether Bliss-Pro owns fiber, leases last-mile facilities, uses radio links, serves only buildings connected through a partner, or mainly supports business connections. It does not show contention ratios, oversubscription, customer-premises equipment age, power backup, trouble-ticket response times, or how much of the network sits in Zubtsov rather than Moscow. It also does not prove that the company has any retail tariff page under its own domain.

The domain evidence is modest. Public DNS resolution shows the company domain using RU-CENTER name servers and NIC mail exchangers; the A record observed for the root domain points outside the AS203290 address estate. That is not unusual for a small operator. Corporate email and a basic website can be hosted by a registrar while access traffic routes through the company's own ASN. But it weakens any argument that the public website itself demonstrates retail-market reach. If customers are acquired through local offices, building relationships, word of mouth or partner channels, the web footprint will understate commercial activity.

If customers expect a modern self-service ISP, the web footprint will disappoint. The public record cannot tell which is true.

Third-party IP lookups add location hints but not a full network map. IPinfo marks important routers in the 185.15.87.0/24 and 185.15.86.0/23 ranges at Zubtsov, Russia, and shows a Moscow probe reaching an AS203290 destination in roughly low double-digit milliseconds in its traceroute sample. BigDataCloud marks the Bliss-Pro prefixes as globally reachable and not bogon, and shows AS198297 as the receiving carrier. Those are useful signals that the routed estate is live and plausibly tied to the Tver-region access market. They do not identify actual customers, node addresses, building coverage, fibre routes or last-mile ownership.

A router geolocation result should be treated as a clue, not as cadastral proof.

This distinction matters because address-resource evidence can tempt analysts to overstate. Owning or originating a /22 equivalent is not the same thing as owning a dense access network. PeeringDB absence or lack of direct peering does not mean a service is bad; many small providers have no reason to appear at exchanges. CleanTalk's spam page is an abuse and reputation signal, not a subscriber-quality survey. APNIC's resolver statistics are a sample of DNS behaviour, not a customer ledger.

The economic question is what each connection earns after all operating claims, not whether the routing database has enough rows to make the company look technical.

Revenue, losses and the scale test

The corporate financial record creates the sharpest pressure on the story. RBC Companies reports 2024 revenue of 24.583 million rubles and profit of negative 25.603 million rubles, with cost of sales of 21.146 million rubles and five employees. TBank's contractor profile reports 2025 revenue of 28.19 million rubles and profit of negative 30.61 million rubles. STAR's profile also shows 2025 profit around negative 30.619 million rubles and balance totals in the hundreds of millions of rubles.

Different aggregators expose different slices, but they agree on the broad picture: revenue is modest, the company is small, and recent net results are heavily negative.

Those numbers do not map cleanly to the telecom operation because the registered primary activity is property rental. Still, they are enough to run scale tests. At 500 rubles per month, a pure residential broadband account produces 6,000 rubles per year before taxes, payment costs, discounts and bad debt. The reported 2025 revenue of 28.19 million rubles would be equivalent to about 4,700 such annual accounts if every ruble were broadband subscription revenue. At 750 rubles per month, it would be roughly 3,130 account-years.

At 1,100 rubles per month, a low business tariff benchmark from a local competitor page, it would be about 2,135 account-years. At 3,000 rubles per month, a higher small-office benchmark, it would be about 783 account-years.

These are not customer counts. They are stress tests. The public record does not say the company had thousands of residential accounts or hundreds of business circuits. It also does not say all revenue was telecom. The point is that the total revenue pool is not large relative to the obligations of a fixed-access operator. If the business is mainly low-ARPU residential access, it needs a meaningful number of paying connections to cover labour and capital. If it is mainly business service, the customer base can be smaller, but churn or loss of a few accounts becomes more dangerous.

If a material part of revenue is property-related, the telecom revenue base is smaller still.

The 2024 gross-profit arithmetic is also uncomfortable. Using the reported 2024 revenue of 24.583 million rubles and cost of sales of 21.146 million rubles, gross profit was about 3.437 million rubles, or roughly 14 percent of revenue. That is before the rest of the cost structure that produced the reported net loss. A local access network can survive on thin gross margin if most capital has already been sunk, if the owner is intentionally preserving service, if property income subsidizes telecom, or if the reported loss includes noncash or non-operating items.

But as an economic platform, a 14 percent gross layer does not leave much room for router replacement, access-switch replacement, optical modules, drop repairs, vehicle time, power, billing and technical staff.

The net-loss ratio is the louder warning. A 25.603 million ruble loss against 24.583 million rubles of 2024 revenue means the reported net loss exceeded the revenue base. A 30.61 million ruble loss against 28.19 million rubles of 2025 revenue implies the same pattern. Without a note explaining depreciation, asset write-downs, related-party rent, restructuring, tax accounting or another non-operating driver, a reader should not treat the business as self-funding. The company may own assets that justify continued operation. It may be part of a property or communications strategy not visible in public summaries.

But the public financial surface does not show a comfortably profitable ISP.

Pricing pressure and substitutes

The local substitute set is not abstract. Public tariff pages for Zubtsov and the Tver region show national and regional alternatives. A tariff aggregator reports home internet offers in Zubtsov beginning around 500 rubles per month and lists major brands such as Rostelecom, MTS, Megafon, Beeline, Dom.ru, t2 and others in the broader local comparison environment.

Another local-provider page for Sky@Net shows apartment and bundled internet-TV offers in the mid-hundreds of rubles, private-house service with higher monthly prices and a material installation charge, and office plans ranging from low-speed entry service to higher monthly business access. Rostelecom's local page advertises xPON, Wi-Fi 6, equipment purchase, rent or instalment, and installation support.

Those pages should not be read as proof of availability at every Bliss-Pro address. They are evidence of the pricing climate. Customers in a small city or district do not evaluate an independent local ISP against a theoretical cost model. They compare it with promotions, bundled television, mobile-family discounts, equipment rental and the perceived safety of a national operator. If the national carrier offers a lower first-year price, Bliss-Pro has to win on installation flexibility, repair speed, local knowledge, private-house reach, building access or business responsiveness. That can be a real advantage, but it has to be monetized.

If the local operator discounts to match national retail pricing while keeping local field costs, the margin disappears.

The private-house and office segments are more interesting. A provider that can connect a private-sector household where national fibre is delayed can charge a connection fee and a higher monthly tariff. A small office may pay more for a named technician, a static address, a managed router, a quick replacement or a direct phone number. In that market, one connection can carry a larger share of equipment and labour. But the service promise rises with the price. A business customer paying multiple times the residential price will not accept prolonged downtime merely because the provider is small.

Bliss-Pro's public routing record does not reveal whether it has the local repair capacity to defend that premium.

This is where the company's mixed corporate profile could be helpful or harmful. If property management is a real operating activity, Bliss-Pro may have relationships with buildings, facilities or land that reduce last-mile friction. A company that already manages a property can install, maintain or coordinate access more cheaply than a telecom outsider. But if property rental is the dominant business and telecom is secondary, broadband customers may not receive the capital attention required for renewal. The public record leaves both possibilities open.

Cost and replacement capital

A local access network can appear profitable for a while by sweating equipment. The invoice still goes out each month, the upstream still carries traffic, and customers may tolerate older routers until video calls fail, Wi-Fi expectations rise or a switch dies. The real economic test is the replacement cycle. Every access switch has a finite life. Customer-premises routers age, lose support, fail under heat or become insecure. Optical modules, power supplies and UPS batteries do not renew themselves. Field labour has to be paid whether the technician is installing a new account or repairing a low-margin legacy line.

Bliss-Pro's small IPv4 estate makes that replacement discipline even more important. It cannot simply hide behind a giant address base or a national network budget. If it uses carrier-grade NAT, it needs logging, abuse response and enough technical competence to diagnose customer complaints that come from shared-address behaviour. If it sells static addresses to business customers, the scarce address pool becomes a pricing and retention asset. If it hosts any customer services, address reputation becomes part of the value proposition. Clean IP space is not free working capital; it is an asset that can be depleted by poor controls.

Upstream transit is another recurring claim on each connection. The public routing view shows AS198297 as the only observed neighbour at the time checked. A single upstream can be affordable and operationally simple, but it gives the upstream stronger bargaining power. If Bliss-Pro does not have a visible live alternative, it may accept price, routing and support terms rather than risk disruption. If the AS12389 relationship in whois is a dormant or backup option, the economic value depends on whether it can actually be activated under load, not on whether it appears in a policy object. Customers buy working failover, not policy text.

The equipment-cost question cannot be answered with public data. There is no disclosed capex schedule, vendor list, depreciation note or network inventory. Public records do not name access-router suppliers, switch vendors, optical transport platforms or customer-equipment policy. That absence should shape the judgment. A business with modest revenue and recent losses has to explain how it will fund renewal. It may have already invested and be depreciating old assets. It may have property-backed resources. It may be deliberately maintaining a low-growth network. Or it may be deferring replacement.

Without the internal evidence, the conservative assumption is that every additional low-ARPU customer increases support and replacement burden unless pricing explicitly covers it.

Labour and support are the scarce asset

In a regional ISP, support labour is not a back-office detail. It is the product. A national operator can advertise speed, bundles and brand trust; a local operator often sells the fact that someone nearby can solve a physical problem. That has value in private homes, offices, small industrial users and older buildings where access routes are not standardized. It also creates a hard ceiling. Four or five employees, if the public staff indicators are close to reality, cannot support unlimited growth while also handling billing, field work, upstream coordination, equipment procurement, abuse reports and regulatory compliance.

This is the strongest argument for careful rather than aggressive growth. If Bliss-Pro's active base is small and local, it may preserve quality by charging enough for difficult installs and avoiding customers who only want the cheapest plan. If it chases volume at 500 rubles per month, the service base can outgrow the technician base before the revenue base can fund more staff. The first signs would be slower installs, longer repair windows, postponed upgrades and customer churn to national providers. Public sources do not provide complaint data for Bliss-Pro, so the article cannot claim that this is happening.

It can say that the economics make it the central operational risk.

Support is also where business customers differ from households. A household may churn after repeated interruptions, but the economic cost of one household outage is limited. A business connection can create urgent support obligations out of proportion to its monthly fee. The provider must price that responsibility. A small office paying 1,100 to 3,000 rubles per month may not cover a complex truck roll if the fault sits in old building wiring or a long private-sector drop. Installation fees, managed-router fees, static-address charges and response-time terms are not extras.

They are how the provider keeps support labour from becoming a subsidy.

Regulation and geopolitical risk

The communications-license evidence is material but not perfectly clean. Multiple contractor profiles show four current communications-license records tied to Bliss-Pro, including channel, data and telematics-related services, with end dates around 2027 and 2028. STAR's history presents a February 2025 change in the wording of license activity from "communications services" to "licensing of communications services." TBank's visible change log phrases some 2 February 2025 entries as suspension of an activity under several licenses, while the same profile also counts four active licenses.

That is a contradiction in the public aggregator layer. The conservative reading is that license continuity exists, but the exact operational status and scope should be verified against Roskomnadzor's license registry before relying on it contractually.

Russia-specific risk is broader than the license page. Telecom operators face rules on lawful interception, traffic controls, data retention, routing-policy compliance and cooperation with state systems. They also face vendor and spare-parts risk in a sanctioned equipment market. Even if a small local operator avoids international procurement directly, its suppliers, upstreams and equipment ecosystem do not. Replacement cycles can stretch, support contracts can weaken and imported equipment can become more expensive. A company with modest revenue and recent losses has less room to absorb those shocks.

Geopolitics also affects demand. Local customers still need connectivity, and the value of a nearby operator can rise when central systems are slow or rigid. But macro pressure can reduce household willingness to pay for premium service, push businesses toward national providers with larger compliance departments, or make financing harder. The visible absence of public procurement wins is not decisive, but it suggests Bliss-Pro is not obviously cushioned by large government contracts in the records reviewed. If it depends on a small set of private accounts, concentration risk is high.

Unofficial market signals

Unofficial signals should be used carefully. IPinfo's router-location hints and traceroute sample point toward Zubtsov relevance. APNIC's public DNS measurement list includes AS203290 in a Russian resolver-behaviour table, which shows the network appears in measurement data but does not measure customer satisfaction or revenue. CleanTalk lists AS203290 in an abuse-reputation context, with detected prefixes and a low reported spam-rate line in the visible snippet; that is a security hygiene signal, not a broad quality audit. Local tariff pages show the competitive environment, not Bliss-Pro's own prices.

There are also historical signals that Bliss-Pro has not always presented as a pure access ISP. A 2011 RIA item linked a company called Bliss-Pro with an internet media project, and older business-directory entries associate the name with publishing or web activity. Those records are not the current telecom thesis, and they may reflect earlier activities or brand reuse. They help explain why the corporate primary activity and public footprint do not read like a straightforward residential ISP. They should not be used to claim current media revenue or current customer relationships.

The absence of visible customer reviews is itself ambiguous. It may mean the subscriber base is small. It may mean customers interact locally and do not use aggregator sites. It may mean the company serves business or managed connections rather than consumer retail. It may mean the service is quiet and uncontroversial. Public silence is not proof of quality. It is only proof that the analyst cannot rely on customer sentiment as an evidence pillar.

Elias Ward's economic judgment

My economic judgment is that Bliss-Pro deserves recognition as a live, locally relevant network operator, but not the stronger claim that it has demonstrated a durable, self-funding broadband platform. The hard evidence supports identity, address resources, current BGP visibility, license history and a small operating scale. The hard evidence does not support customer count, profitable access economics, upstream redundancy, equipment-modernization pace or segment-level revenue.

For a customer, the company can still be rational if the alternative is slow installation, poor local support or an address/managed-service need that a national bundle does not solve. In that case the right buying question is not "Is Bliss-Pro bigger than Rostelecom?" It is "Does Bliss-Pro price my specific connection high enough to keep the service maintained, and does it have a practical recovery path if the upstream, access switch or local drop fails?" The answer could be yes for a business circuit, a building-specific service or a hard-to-reach private-sector connection.

It is harder to prove for a price-sensitive residential account.

For an investor or strategic partner, the company looks like an asset with a visible network spine and uncertain cash quality. The IPv4 allocation, ASN, local access knowledge and licenses have value. But the recent losses and limited observed upstream diversity mean the value should be discounted unless internal diligence shows recurring telecom revenue, current equipment inventory, renewal plans, churn history, enforceable access rights, and a route-diversity plan. A buyer paying only for the registry assets might find a small but useful network. A buyer paying for a growth ISP would need much stronger evidence.

For Bliss-Pro itself, the economic path is narrow. It should not try to win every household on price. The company should prove that each new connection pays for the true marginal burden: CPE, install time, support calls, upstream capacity, billing, logging, spares and replacement reserves. It should publish or at least maintain clear private evidence of upstream failover, equipment age, IPv6 readiness, address-management policy, average repair time and renewal capex. Without that discipline, growth can make the business weaker.

More subscribers at insufficient ARPU create more faults, more support obligations and more future equipment claims without solving the loss problem.

Facts that would change the judgment

Several facts would materially improve the assessment. The first would be audited or management accounts separating telecom revenue from property revenue and showing positive contribution margin by product. The second would be a subscriber or circuit schedule with churn, average revenue per account, installation fees, business-account concentration and bad-debt history. The third would be network evidence for live upstream diversity, not only whois policy: active sessions, tested failover, physical path separation and supplier terms.

The fourth would be a renewal plan for access switches, routers, optics, power and customer equipment, funded from operating cash rather than deferred until failure.

IPv6 would also change the modernization view. Visible originated IPv6, customer deployment policy and support documentation would not guarantee profitability, but they would reduce the impression that the network is being preserved rather than upgraded. A customer-portal or tariff page that clearly states service areas, connection terms, support channels and business options would strengthen the commercial-readiness case. Public procurement or enterprise references would help only if they are current and recurring, not one-off.

Several facts would worsen the assessment. Evidence that AS198297 is the only practical upstream with no tested alternative would increase continuity risk. Evidence that reported losses are operating losses rather than accounting effects would make the current revenue base look unsustainable. Evidence of outdated access equipment, weak spares, high churn, unresolved customer complaints or unpaid regulatory obligations would shift the judgment from cautious to negative. Evidence that telecom revenue is only a small part of the reported total would make the ISP thesis much thinner.

The responsible conclusion is therefore conditional. Bliss-Pro is real as a network, real as a legal entity, and visible in the routing table. But a regional ISP's economic authority is not earned by being visible in RIPE. It is earned when one connection after another contributes enough cash to keep the network alive, supported and renewed. Until Bliss-Pro can show that, the company's strongest public story is local operational optionality, not proven broadband economics.

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