AS715

AS715 is an active, routed ASN registered under ARIN to WoodyNet, Inc. but operated as part of Packet Clearing House's (PCH) IT network, currently announcing roughly 30 IPv4 prefixes (~84,700 addresses) and 11 IPv6 prefixes.

The registrant-of-record split is worth stating plainly rather than resolving away: ARIN's autnum record names WoodyNet, Inc. (org handle WOODYN-Z, RDAP name WOODYNET-2), while PCH's own peering page independently and explicitly lists AS715 as one of its operating ASNs alongside AS42 and AS3856. WoodyNet is the personal/founder-linked entity of PCH co-founder Bill Woodcock, a common pattern for PCH-family ASNs — so both facts are recorded together as registrant and operator, not treated as a conflict. ARIN's top-level autnum registration event dates AS715 to 1997-02-26, with a last-changed event of 2012-04-02.

Routing scale is modest but stable: CAIDA ranks it 5930 globally, with roughly 5 upstream ASNs (bgp.tools) and 7-8 observed peers including AS42 (WoodyNet), AS2914 (NTT America), AS1288 (PCH), and DE-CIX Management GmbH. CAIDA's customer cone for AS715 spans 3 ASNs, 34 prefixes, and 85,504 addresses. PCH states an open peering policy for AS715, accepting interconnects at public IXPs or private links of 10 Gbps or more.

RPKI posture is largely clean: bgp.he.net reports 40 of 42 observed prefixes carry valid ROAs and zero invalid origins; bgp.tools flags the remaining 2 as matching an unauthenticated IRR source rather than RPKI-invalid. Registrant/admin address is Berkeley and San Francisco (Presidio), CA; bgp.tools additionally reports operational presence in Mauritius and Nepal, consistent with PCH's global anycast and IXP-support footprint, though that specific claim is single-sourced.

Exposure

Standard routed-network exposure only; no elevated attack surface identified beyond normal BGP/IXP operations.

Bogon flag (unresolved)

Hurricane Electric's BGP Toolkit tags AS715 "announces bogons" as of 2026-07-25; bgp.tools shows no such tag for the same ASN on the same date and instead lists it as a clean CDN/Tranco-10k host with valid RPKI — a genuine cross-source disagreement, not resolved by this research.

Abuse contact

ARIN RDAP and bgp.tools both list Bill Woodcock (handle BW1324-ARIN) as the administrative/abuse contact, consistent with the WoodyNet/PCH operator link.

Spamhaus ASN-DROP

Unknown — the ASN-DROP API endpoint returned HTTP 404 on the check date; not verified via an alternate route.

NANOG archive

No notable abuse, hijack, or bogon discussion of AS715 found in a site-restricted NANOG search as of 2026-07-25.

Operator

Registrant WoodyNet, Inc. (ARIN handle WOODYN-Z); operated as part of Packet Clearing House's IT network per PCH's own site [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/715, pch.net/about/peering

Country / RIR

US, ARIN [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/715

Allocated

1997-02-26 (ARIN RDAP autnum top-level registration event); last changed 2012-04-02 [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/715

Org status

active; ARIN record shows no revocation/inactive markers, last changed 2012-04-02 [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/715

Contacts

abuse/admin contact Bill Woodcock (BW1324-ARIN); operator PCH peering@pch.net; registrant address Berkeley, CA [Confirmed for RDAP contact; Likely for PCH peering contact] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/715, pch.net/about/peering

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no confirmed abuse history; a sourced but uncorroborated HE.net "announces bogons" flag as of 2026-07-25 is not matched by bgp.tools' clean reputation panel for the same ASN; Spamhaus ASN-DROP status unverified (endpoint 404); no NANOG archive hits

Network & routing

Network type

Non-profit research/critical-infrastructure operator (PCH) — IXP support, anycast DNS/root-TLD service, DNSSEC; AS715 is one of PCH's IT/operational ASNs (bgp.he.net labels it PCH-IT-ASN) [Likely] — bgp.he.net/AS715, pch.net

Size

30 IPv4 prefixes / ~84,736 addresses; 11 IPv6 prefixes (equivalent to 66,569 /48s); CAIDA AS rank 5930; customer-cone size 3 ASNs / 34 prefixes / 85,504 addresses [Confirmed] — RIPEstat routing-status, bgp.tools/as/715, CAIDA ASRank (2026-07-25, untruncated fetch)

Routing/peering

~5 upstream ASNs (not individually enumerated); 7-8 observed peers including AS42 (WoodyNet), AS2914 (NTT America), AS1288 (PCH), DE-CIX Management GmbH; open peering policy covering AS42/AS3856/AS715, min 10 Gbps interconnect, contact peering@pch.net [Likely for peer/upstream detail; Confirmed for peering policy] — bgp.he.net/AS715, bgp.tools/as/715, pch.net/about/peering

RPKI

mostly valid — 40 of 42 observed prefixes carry valid ROAs, 0 RPKI-invalid per bgp.he.net; bgp.tools notes 2 as unauthenticated-IRR-match rather than invalid [Likely] — bgp.he.net/AS715, bgp.tools/as/715

Notable usage

PCH operates IXP support, globally distributed anycast DNS (root/TLD), DNSSEC, and routing/PNT research infrastructure; AS715 co-announces AS44876 per third-party observation [Likely] — bgp.he.net/AS715, pch.net

Related ASNs

AS42 (WoodyNet, PCH-affiliated peer), AS1288 (PCH), AS3856 (PCH, covered by same peering policy), AS44876 (co-announced) [Likely] — pch.net/about/peering, bgp.he.net/AS715

Analyst note

Registrant-of-record (WoodyNet, Inc.) and operator (Packet Clearing House) differ but are not in conflict — a common pattern for PCH-family ASNs tied to co-founder Bill Woodcock. The one open item worth flagging to a human reviewer is the HE.net-vs-bgp.tools bogon-flag disagreement, which this research could not resolve.