AS776

AS776 is an active, single-homed research-network ASN registered under RIPE to Inria Sophia-Antipolis, the French national digital-science institute's Côte d'Azur research center. It announces exactly one IPv4 prefix, 138.96.0.0/16 (~65,536 addresses), and no IPv6 space, routed through a single visible upstream: AS2200, operated by Renater, France's National Research and Education Network.

The RIPE RDAP record lists AS776's top-level registration event as 2002-09-19, with a last-changed date of 2021-09-07 — this is the recorded allocated_date. A third-party source, bgp.tools, separately claims a 1993 registration date; that figure conflicts with the authoritative RIPE registry event and is not adopted here.

AS776 has no PeeringDB presence at either the organization or network level (both return HTTP 404), and no public peering policy was found — consistent with a small downstream research-institute network that reaches the wider Internet solely through Renater rather than negotiating its own settlement-free peering. CAIDA ranks AS776 at #14,259 globally with a singleton customer cone (1 ASN, 1 prefix, 65,536 addresses).

The operator is Inria (Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique), a French public scientific and technical institute; Renater (ORG-RA8-RIPE) is the RIPE-registered sponsoring organization on the aut-num object. Inria's own website could not be independently verified — every inria.fr path returned a bot-protection challenge page rather than content.

Operator

Inria Sophia-Antipolis (part of Inria — Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique, a French public scientific/technical institute); RIPE-registered sponsoring org is Renater (ORG-RA8-RIPE)

[Likely] — https://rest.db.ripe.net/ripe/aut-num/AS776.json, https://rest.db.ripe.net/ripe/organisation/ORG-RA8-RIPE.json

Country / RIR

France, RIPE NCC [Confirmed] — https://rdap.db.ripe.net/autnum/776

Allocated

2002-09-19 (RIPE RDAP autnum top-level registration event); last changed 2021-09-07 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.db.ripe.net/autnum/776 (bgp.tools independently shows a conflicting "1 Sep 1993" figure, not adopted — provenance [Unknown])

Org status

RIPE registry status flag for AS776 shows LEGACY per bgp.he.net, though the underlying RIPE record shows status Active (last-changed 2021-09-07); operator Inria is an active public research institute [Confirmed for the RIPE status flag] — https://bgp.he.net/AS776, https://rdap.db.ripe.net/autnum/776

Contacts

certsvp@renater.fr (RENATER Abuse, RA6839-RIPE); security-ripe@inria.fr [Confirmed] — https://rdap.db.ripe.net/autnum/776

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-07-31; Spamhaus ASN lookup blocked (403, unverified); NANOG archive search inconclusive (coverage limitation, not confirmation)

Network & routing

Network type

downstream/customer research network of RENATER (AS2200), France's NREN; not an independently peering transit network [Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS776

Size

1 IPv4 prefix announced (138.96.0.0/16, ~65,536 addresses), 0 IPv6 prefixes; CAIDA AS rank 14,259 with a singleton customer cone (1 ASN, 1 prefix, 65,536 addresses) [Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS776, https://asrank.caida.org/asns/776

Routing/peering

sole visible upstream/peer is AS2200 (Renater); no PeeringDB org or net entry (both 404); no published peering policy [Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS776, https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/776

RPKI

no RPKI-valid or RPKI-invalid origin data shown for the announced prefix on either source; effectively no visible ROA coverage [Likely] — https://bgp.he.net/AS776, https://bgp.tools/as/776

Notable usage

network for Inria's Sophia-Antipolis / Université Côte d'Azur research center [Likely] — https://rest.db.ripe.net/ripe/aut-num/AS776.json, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inria

Related ASNs

AS2200 (Renater, upstream/NREN) [Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS776

Analyst note

Research relied on direct WebFetch to RIPE RDAP, bgp.he.net, bgp.tools, and PeeringDB. inria.fr blocked all fetch attempts with a bot-protection challenge page, so Inria's own "about" claims could not be independently confirmed.