AS74

AS74 is a legacy allocation registered under ARIN to Shared Services Canada (org SSC-299-Z, Ottawa, ON), the Government of Canada's consolidated IT-services agency — making it a Canadian holder (country CA) administered through ARIN. Historically, RFC 1166 (1990) labeled AS74 "XDRENET-AS / Defence Research Establishment" (the Canadian defence-research network, DREnet), so this is a clear holder change from the famous historical label to the modern federal IT agency. Shared Services Canada was created on August 4, 2011 to transform how the government manages its IT infrastructure, consolidating over 300 data centres and hundreds of overlapping telecommunications networks; it connects more than 400,000 Government of Canada workers across nearly 4,000 sites in Canada and 200 international locations, supporting 145+ federal organizations. IRR records still reference DRDC/DND proxies via GCSN (AS2682). Current global routing for AS74 itself was not clearly confirmed this cycle (no prefix count captured), so its announcing status is recorded as unclear and confidence is set Medium. The ARIN ASN RegDate is 1986-05-05 (the SSC-299-Z org RegDate of 2017-03-01 is a consolidation/refresh date). SSC operates a family of low ASNs (AS58, AS2675, AS2679, AS2682). For triage, treat AS74 as Canadian federal-government infrastructure rather than its old defence-research label. No notable public abuse signal was found as of June 2026.

Operator

Shared Services Canada (ARIN OrgId SSC-299-Z, Ottawa, ON) [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP

Country / RIR

CA, ARIN [Confirmed] (administered through ARIN)

Allocated

ARIN ASN RegDate 1986-05-05 (org SSC-299-Z RegDate 2017-03-01 is a consolidation/refresh) [Confirmed]

Org status

active org

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-06-08; clean government network — bgpview.io

Network & routing

Network type

government (Government of Canada consolidated IT services; created 2011-08-04) [Confirmed]

Size

current global routing for AS74 not clearly confirmed this cycle (no prefix count captured) — bgpview.io (2026-06)

Routing/peering

unclear this cycle; IRR references DRDC/DND proxies via GCSN (AS2682); RPKI unknown — bgpview.io

Notable usage

[historical, RFC 1166] AS74 "XDRENET-AS / Defence Research Establishment" (Canadian defence-research network, DREnet). [current] Shared Services Canada — consolidated GoC IT agency (300+ data centres consolidated; 400,000+ workers; ~4,000 sites; 145+ orgs) — canada.ca/en/shared-services.html

Related ASNs

AS58 (SSC-299-Z-58), AS2675, AS2679, AS2682 (all Shared Services Canada) [Confirmed]

Analyst note

A consolidated Government-of-Canada allocation; treat as Canadian federal-government infrastructure rather than its old defence-research label. AS74's own announcing status was not clearly confirmed this cycle.