AS669

AS669 is a dormant legacy autonomous system registered under RIPE NCC to GIP RENATER, France's national research-and-education network operator, and it currently announces zero IPv4 and zero IPv6 prefixes — meaning it carries no live routed traffic today.

The RIPE RDAP autnum record names it "OFRIR-IP-INTERNET-AS" with a top-level registration event dated 2002-08-21, which is recorded here as its allocated date. WHOIS-style remarks in the same record reference older 1990s change history tied to INRIA's "Passerelles Internationales" international gateway links, but no earlier RIR-dated event could be independently verified, so that older context is noted without overriding the 2002-08-21 record.

AS669 should not be confused with AS2200, RENATER's currently active and much larger ASN. AS2200 carries 50–100 Gbps of balanced traffic, runs an Open PeeringDB peering policy, and is present at Equinix Paris, France-IX, and other European exchange points. AS669 has none of that: no PeeringDB network entry of its own and no observed exchange-point presence.

Every routing source checked (RIPEstat, bgp.he.net, bgp.tools, CAIDA) agrees AS669 is invisible in the global table: 0 of 325 sampled RIS peers see it for IPv4 and 0 of 320 for IPv6, its CAIDA AS rank sits near the bottom at 79,459, and its customer cone is a singleton — itself, with zero prefixes and zero addresses. It has no upstreams and no peers in any dataset.

Operator

GIP RENATER (Groupement d'Intérêt Public RENATER — Réseau National de télécommunications pour la Technologie, l'Enseignement et la Recherche) [Confirmed] — https://rdap.db.ripe.net/autnum/669, https://www.renater.fr/en/about/the-gip-renater/

Country / RIR

FR, RIPE NCC (ARIN RDAP for AS669 redirects to RIPE) [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/669, https://rdap.db.ripe.net/autnum/669

Allocated

2002-08-21 (RIPE RDAP top-level autnum registration event); last changed 2019-06-24 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.db.ripe.net/autnum/669

Org status

active — GIP (Groupement d'Intérêt Public), created by ministerial order 27 January 1993; members include CNRS, CEA, INRIA, CNES, INRAE, INSERM, ONERA, CIRAD, IRD, BRGM, and the French State [Confirmed] — https://www.renater.fr/en/about/the-gip-renater/

Contacts

certsvp@renater.fr (current abuse contact) [Confirmed] — https://rdap.db.ripe.net/autnum/669

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-07-18 in AbuseIPDB, Spamhaus, CleanTalk, or NANOG archives; not to be confused with AS2200, which shows populated third-party spam-tracking entries

Network & routing

Network type

legacy/historical R&E ASN, WHOIS name OFRIR-IP-INTERNET-AS, originally tied to INRIA's "Passerelles Internationales" international gateway links; distinct from RENATER's currently active AS2200 [Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS669, https://rdap.db.ripe.net/autnum/669

Size

dormant — 0 IPv4 prefixes / 0 addresses, 0 IPv6 prefixes; customer cone = 1 ASN (itself), 0 prefixes, 0 addresses [Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS669, https://bgp.tools/as/669

Routing/peering

not announced — 0/325 RIS peers see it for IPv4, 0/320 for IPv6; CAIDA degree 0 (upstream/peer/customer all 0); no PeeringDB network entry for AS669 itself [Confirmed] — https://rdap.db.ripe.net/autnum/669, https://bgp.he.net/AS669, https://bgp.tools/as/669

RPKI

not assessable — no announced prefixes, so no ROAs exist to validate [Unknown] — (no source; absence of announcements per above)

Notable usage

historically the ASN used for INRIA's international gateway connections predating today's RENATER network; currently dormant with no active announcements [Likely] — https://bgp.he.net/AS669, https://rdap.db.ripe.net/autnum/669

Related ASNs

AS2200 (RENATER's active operational network, Open peering policy, 50–100 Gbps) [Confirmed] — https://www.peeringdb.com/net/3130

Analyst note

registry-active but operationally dormant legacy ASN; live RENATER routing runs under AS2200, not AS669. Clean, no abuse signal.