AS554

AS554 is a legacy autonomous system number allocated by ARIN to the California Internet Federation (CIF), a registrant organization whose RDAP record places its ASN registration at the tail end of 1989 — among the earliest wave of ARIN-era ASN assignments in the state of California. The registry's sole listed point of contact, an individual named Walt Prue with a University of Southern California email address, has been flagged by ARIN as unvalidated since late 2023, since ARIN received no response confirming the contact's continued accuracy. Despite an "active" registry status, AS554 shows no activity in the modern global routing table: every routing-data source consulted (RIPEstat, Hurricane Electric's BGP Toolkit, and bgp.tools) independently confirms zero originated IPv4 or IPv6 prefixes, zero observed BGP peers, and zero upstream providers as of mid-2026. Historical RIPEstat routing-status data shows the ASN did once announce a single prefix, 204.62.200.0/24, briefly between January 2003 and September 2005, but nothing since. CAIDA's AS Rank places AS554 near the very bottom of its global significance ranking (rank 79,459 of roughly 80,000+ ranked ASNs), consistent with a long-dormant registration. No PeeringDB entry, corporate website, or other operator-controlled source could be located to classify the network's original purpose, so several descriptive fields are recorded honestly as unknown rather than guessed. No public abuse, spam, or security-incident reporting names AS554 in NANOG archives, Spamhaus resources, or general threat-intelligence coverage, an absence that is most plausibly explained by the ASN's total routing inactivity rather than a positive reputation signal.

Country / RIR

US, ARIN [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/554

Allocated

1989-11-30 — ARIN RDAP autnum TOP-LEVEL registration event (a first-party RIR fact, corroborated independently by bgp.tools' "Registered November 30, 1989"); last changed 1996-06-10 per the same autnum top-level events [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/554, https://bgp.tools/as/554

Org status

ARIN registry status "active", but the sole POC (Walt Prue, WP8-ARIN) has been flagged unvalidated by ARIN since 2023-11-21 with no response, and the ASN is not currently routed — suggests a dormant/unmaintained legacy registration rather than an operationally active organization

[Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/554

Website

Unknown — no operator-controlled website found despite targeted searches [Unknown]

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-07-11 in Spamhaus resources, NANOG/seclists archives, or general threat-feed coverage; most plausibly explained by the ASN's total routing inactivity rather than a clean-record signal

Abuse contact

a named individual, Walt Prue (WP8-ARIN), at a University of Southern California address, unvalidated by ARIN since 2023-11-21; his personal mailbox is not reproduced here

Network & routing

Network type / original purpose

Unknown — no operator-controlled website, PeeringDB entry, or corporate record found to classify the network beyond its RIR registrant name [Unknown] — https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/554

Size / routing activity

dormant — 0 IPv4 prefixes and 0 IPv6 prefixes currently announced; customer cone = 1 ASN (itself), 0 prefixes, 0 addresses [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/AS554, https://bgp.he.net/AS554, https://api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/554

Routing/peering

0 observed BGP peers, 0 upstreams, not a member of any visible IXP; no PeeringDB record [Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS554, https://bgp.tools/as/554, https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/554

RPKI

not assessable — AS554 originates no prefixes, so there are no ROAs to validate; bgp.he.net shows 0 valid/invalid origins [Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS554

CAIDA AS Rank

79,459 (very low global significance, consistent with a dormant ASN) [Confirmed] — https://api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/554

Notable usage

none found; the ASN is currently dark (not announcing) with only a brief 2003–2005 historical announcement on record [Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS554, https://stat.ripe.net/AS554

Related ASNs

none identified; do not confuse this AS554/CALINET-AS with the unrelated "California Education and Research Federation Network" ASNs (AS4262–AS4269), a distinct organization that surfaced repeatedly in searches [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/554

ASN / name

AS554, CALINET-AS [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/554

Registrant

California Internet Federation (CIF), State of California, United States [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/554

Historical announcement

last announced 204.62.200.0/24, first seen 2003-01-10, last seen 2005-09-02; nothing announced since [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/data/routing-status/data.json?resource=554

Analyst note

dormant legacy ASN with a genuine, first-party RIR allocation date (1989-11-30) but no locatable operator-official source for business/network-type classification; several fields are honestly Unknown rather than fabricated.