AS778

AS778 is a dormant, RIPE-region legacy autonomous system registered to GIP RENATER, France's national research-and-education network operator, on behalf of its INRIA Rhône-Alpes (Grenoble/Montbonnot) member site; it currently announces zero IPv4 and zero IPv6 prefixes and has no live BGP visibility.

The RIPE RDAP record's top-level registration event dates the ASN to 2002-08-21, last changed 2019-06-24. Despite the France/INRIA geography, AS778 is a RIPE NCC ASN, not an ARIN one — ARIN's RDAP endpoint 303-redirects queries for AS778 to rdap.db.ripe.net, confirming RIPE as the registry of record.

RENATER is a GIP (Groupement d'Intérêt Public), a French public-law nonprofit collaborative structure that operates the national academic and research backbone with international connectivity via GÉANT. AS778 carries the RIPE "Active" record status, but it has no PeeringDB network record and is not currently announcing routes, making it operationally dormant despite the nominal-active registry state.

Routing sources agree on the dormancy: CAIDA ASRank places it at 79,459 with a singleton customer cone (itself only, 0 prefixes, 0 addresses) and zero customer/peer/provider degree; RIPEstat RIS shows 0 of 328 v4 peers and 0 of 322 v6 peers observing it. RPKI validation cannot be assessed because there are no announced prefixes to check against ROAs.

Operator

GIP RENATER (Groupement d'Intérêt Public; France's National Research and Education Network), holding the ASN for its INRIA Rhône-Alpes (Grenoble/Montbonnot) member site [Confirmed] — rdap.db.ripe.net/autnum/778, renater.fr/a-propos/le-gip-renater/

Country / RIR

FR, RIPE NCC (not ARIN — ARIN RDAP 303-redirects to rdap.db.ripe.net for AS778) [Confirmed] — rdap.db.ripe.net/autnum/778

Allocated

2002-08-21 (RIPE RDAP top-level "registration" event); last changed 2019-06-24 [Confirmed] — rdap.db.ripe.net/autnum/778 events[]

Org status

RENATER is a GIP (Groupement d'Intérêt Public), a French nonprofit public-law collaborative structure [Confirmed] — renater.fr/a-propos/le-gip-renater/. INRIA's own legal-status page was not confirmed in this pass [Unknown]

Contacts

certsvp@renater.fr (RIPE abuse-c RA6839-RIPE); admin/tech contacts registered to RENATER staff in Grenoble, Rennes, and Paris, France [Confirmed] — rdap.db.ripe.net/autnum/778

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-07-31 in CAIDA ASRank, bgp.tools, IPinfo, RIPEstat, or a NANOG mail-archive search; partial coverage only — Spamhaus, Cisco Talos, and AbuseIPDB all returned HTTP 403 and were not checked

Network & routing

Network type

Research and Education Network (REN); RENATER operates France's national academic/research backbone with international connectivity via GÉANT [Confirmed] — renater.fr/reseau/

Size

dormant/unrouted — 0 IPv4 prefixes / 0 addresses, 0 IPv6 prefixes; customer cone = 1 ASN (itself), 0 prefixes, 0 addresses; CAIDA AS rank 79,459 [Confirmed] — RIPEstat routing-status / announced-prefixes, CAIDA ASRank (2026-07)

Routing/peering

NOT announced — 0/328 RIS peers seeing it (v4), 0/322 (v6); CAIDA degree 0 customer / 0 peer / 0 provider; no PeeringDB network record for AS778 (404 on peeringdb.com/asn/778 and the API) [Confirmed]. No dedicated AS778 or RENATER peering-policy page was located [Unknown]

RPKI

not assessable — zero announced prefixes means no ROAs to validate; RIPEstat's rpki-validation endpoint requires a specific prefix, and none is announced [Confirmed]

Notable usage

named for INRIA Rhône-Alpes, a French national public computer-science research institute; the ASN is currently inactive from a BGP standpoint despite the RIPE record showing status "Active" [Confirmed] — bgp.he.net/AS778, rdap.db.ripe.net/autnum/778

Related ASNs

none confirmed in this pass — RENATER is known to hold multiple ASNs on behalf of member institutions, but no verified sibling list for AS778 was located [Unknown]

Analyst note

Encountered as a dormant/unrouted legacy French academic ASN; RIPE record status shows "Active" but zero prefixes are announced and no PeeringDB record exists. Clean ASN with no confirmed abuse signal, subject to the partial-coverage caveat above.