AS774

AS774 is a legacy autonomous system registered in RIPE's database to GIP RENATER (registry handle FR-INRIA1, originally issued to INRIA, the French national computer-science and automation research institute) that currently announces zero IPv4 and zero IPv6 prefixes — it is registry-active but operationally dormant.

RIPE RDAP records a registration event of 2002-08-21 and a last-changed event of 2019-06-24 for the autnum, with status "active." That is a registry-record date, not necessarily INRIA's original pre-RIPE allocation date, since AS774 is a very low legacy number; it is recorded here as the first-party RIR fact rather than nulled.

RENATER, established in 1993 as a French GIP (a public-interest grouping), is the country's National Research and Education Network, connecting institutions including the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, CNRS, CEA, Inria, CNES, Inrae, Inserm, Onera, Cirad, IRD, and BRGM. INRIA is one of RENATER's founding member organizations, and AS774's registry handle still carries INRIA's name.

RENATER's live operational backbone runs under a different ASN, AS2200 — 362 announced prefixes and 159 observed BGP peers per bgp.he.net, with an Open peering policy on PeeringDB. AS774 itself has no PeeringDB network object (404 on lookup), zero CAIDA-observed peers, upstreams, or customers, a CAIDA AS Rank of 79,459, and a customer cone limited to itself (1 ASN, 0 prefixes, 0 addresses). With no announced prefixes there are no ROAs to validate, so RPKI status is not assessable.

Operator

GIP RENATER (Groupement d'Intérêt Public RENATER), registry handle FR-INRIA1, originally registered to INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique) [Confirmed] — RIPE RDAP autnum/774, renater.fr/a-propos/le-gip-renater

Country / RIR

FR, RIPE NCC [Confirmed] — RIPE RDAP autnum/774

Allocated

2002-08-21 (RIPE RDAP autnum top-level registration event; last-changed 2019-06-24) — likely reflects RIPE-database record creation/migration for a pre-existing legacy ASN rather than INRIA's original allocation date, which is not stated in the record [Confirmed for the recorded event; caveat noted] — RIPE RDAP autnum/774

Org status

RIPE RDAP status "active" for the AS774 registry record itself (not withdrawn), while RENATER as an organization is a fully active GIP founded 1993; the two statuses are distinct — AS774 is registry-active but routing-dormant [Confirmed] — RIPE RDAP autnum/774

Contacts

certsvp@renater.fr (RENATER CERT/Abuse, entity RA6839-RIPE); org handle ORG-RA8-RIPE, 23-25 rue Daviel, 75013 Paris, France; historical INRIA address referenced in RDAP remarks: Domaine de Voluceau, Rocquencourt, BP 105, 78153 Le Chesnay CEDEX, France [Confirmed] — RIPE RDAP autnum/774

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-08-01 — not in Spamhaus ASN-DROP or NANOG mail-archive; Cisco Talos lookup blocked (403, Unknown, not confirmed clean); consistent with an unrouted, low-attack-surface legacy ASN — spamhaus.org/drop/asndrop.json, mail-archive.com/nanog@nanog.org

Network & routing

Network type

legacy/dormant ASN registered to France's national research-and-education network operator (RENATER, a GIP est. 1993); AS774 itself is unrouted — RENATER's active network runs under AS2200 [Confirmed] — bgp.he.net/AS774, bgp.he.net/AS2200, renater.fr history page

Size

dormant — 0 IPv4 prefixes / 0 IPv4 address estimate, 0 IPv6 prefixes; customer cone = 1 ASN (itself), 0 prefixes, 0 addresses [Confirmed] — RIPEstat routing-status, CAIDA ASRank, bgp.he.net, bgp.tools (2026-08)

Routing/peering

NOT announced — 0 observed BGP peers, 0 upstreams, 0 CAIDA degree (customer/peer/provider all 0); no PeeringDB network object exists for AS774 (404) [Confirmed]. AS2200 (RENATER's active ASN) carries an Open PeeringDB policy, but that is not confirmed for AS774 specifically [Likely, attributed to AS2200 only]

RPKI

not assessable — AS774 announces no prefixes, so there are no ROAs to validate [Confirmed]

Notable usage

RENATER connects France's higher-education and research institutions (Ministry of National Education, Ministry of Higher Education/Research, CNRS, CEA, Inria, CNES, Inrae, Inserm, Onera, Cirad, IRD, BRGM) [Likely, RENATER-level]. AS774 (FR-INRIA1) is INRIA's originally-registered but now-dormant legacy ASN; RENATER's active network (AS2200) is distinct

[Confirmed] — renater.fr/a-propos-le-gip-renater-lhistoire, bgp.he.net/AS2200

Related ASNs

AS2200 (RENATER's active operational backbone, 362 prefixes, 159 peers) [Confirmed]

Analyst note

Encountered as a dormant legacy ASN whose registry handle (FR-INRIA1) still names INRIA, but current RDAP registrant is GIP RENATER; live routing runs under AS2200, not AS774. Four independent routing sources (RIPEstat, CAIDA, bgp.he.net, bgp.tools) agree on zero announcements. WebSearch budget was exhausted mid-research; community-corroboration angle (A5) abstained entirely and Talos reputation could not be checked — both are honest Unknowns, not evidence of anything.