AS802

AS802 is an actively routed autonomous system registered under ARIN to York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, announcing four IPv4 prefixes (roughly 71,936 addresses) and zero IPv6 space as of 2026-08-01, with full BGP visibility across the observed RIPE RIS mesh (328/328 v4 peers).

The network is operated by the university's UIT (University Information Technology) division as a non-commercial research-and-education (R&E) campus network, reaching the wider Internet via Ontario's ORION network and the national CANARIE R&E backbone rather than via a published open-peering arrangement; AS802 has no PeeringDB record.

UIT's own Network Modernization pages report the campus core was upgraded to 100G-capable links (raising aggregate core capacity from 6 Tbps to 25 Tbps) and that Internet uplink bandwidth was increased from 10 Gbps to 100 Gbps, with reported network uptime improving from 97% to 99.7%.

Routing detail: bgp.he.net shows AS549 as the apparent upstream/transit via IRR-derived policy, one observed BGP peer (AS26677, ORION), and all four originated v4 prefixes carrying valid RPKI ROA signatures. CAIDA ASRank places AS802 at rank 13473, with a customer cone of 1 ASN, 4 prefixes, and 71,936 addresses (asnDegree total 1: customer 0, peer 0, provider 1).

The ARIN RDAP autnum record for AS802 exposes only a top-level "last changed" event (2023-08-04); it carries no top-level "registration" event, a characteristic independently confirmed by two research angles (one via an uncapped re-fetch) rather than a truncation artifact. Entity-level dates nested under the record — the YORKUN-Z org handle (2023-08-03) and the technical/abuse POC records (2000-05-04, 2005-02-11) — are registrant and contact record dates, not the ASN's own allocation date, and are excluded here per instruction.

Operator

York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (ARIN handle YORKU-AS; org handle YORKUN-Z; operating division UIT) [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum, whois.arin.net/rest/asn/AS802, yorku.ca/uit

Country / RIR

CA, ARIN [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/802

Allocated

Unknown — the ARIN RDAP autnum top-level events[] carries only a "last changed" action (2023-08-04), no "registration" event; verified genuine (not truncation) via an uncapped re-fetch. Entity-level dates (org handle 2023-08-03; tech/abuse POC records 2000-05-04 / 2005-02-11) are distinct record dates, not the allocation date

[Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/802

Org status

active — ARIN RDAP autnum object status = "active" [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/802

Contacts

abuse@yorku.ca (CNS10-ARIN, Computing and Networking Services); hostmaster@yorku.ca (NOH1-ARIN, Network Operations Hostmaster) [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/802, stat.ripe.net/data/abuse-contact-finder/data.json?resource=802

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no current blocklist/hijack signal found as of 2026-08-01; York University disclosed a major cyberattack on 2020-05-01/02 and took its own network offline while responding — an operator-level incident, not evidence of AS802 being used for outbound abuse [Confirmed for the 2020 incident; Unknown for absence of current abuse signal] — yorku.ca/safety/2020/05/02/major-cyber-incident/, cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/york-university-cyber-attack-1.5555106

Network & routing

Network type

non-commercial research & education (R&E) university campus network, connected to ORION (Ontario) and federated onto CANARIE nationally [Likely] — yorku.ca/uit/faculty-staff-services/research-networks/, canarie.ca/nren/case-studies/orion/

Size

4 IPv4 prefixes announced (198.96.32.0/21, 199.212.64.0/20, 192.75.18.0/24, 130.63.0.0/16; ~71,936 addresses), 0 IPv6 prefixes; seen by 328/328 RIS peers v4, 0/322 v6 [Confirmed] — stat.ripe.net/802/routing-status, stat.ripe.net/802/announced-prefixes (2026-07-18 to 2026-08-01 window)

Routing/peering

apparent upstream AS549 (IRR-derived policy); one observed peer AS26677 (ORION); no PeeringDB record (peeringdb.com/asn/802 = 404) and no published open-peering policy [Likely] — bgp.he.net/AS802, peeringdb.com/asn/802

RPKI

bgp.he.net reports all 4 originated v4 prefixes carry valid RPKI ROA signatures; RIPEstat's rpki-validation endpoint requires a per-prefix argument and returns nothing for an ASN-level query, so the bgp.he.net all-4-valid reading stands as the sourced assessment [Likely] — bgp.he.net/AS802

AS rank / customer cone

CAIDA ASRank #13473; customer cone 1 ASN, 4 prefixes, 71,936 addresses; asnDegree total 1 (customer 0, peer 0, provider 1) [Confirmed] — asrank.caida.org/asns/802

Notable usage

campus network for York University (Keele, Glendon, Markham campuses); UIT Network Modernization raised core capacity from 6 Tbps to 25 Tbps and Internet uplink from 10 Gbps to 100 Gbps, with uptime improving from 97% to 99.7% [Confirmed] — yorku.ca/uit/cio/network-modernization/

Related ASNs

none identified in this research pass [Unknown]

Analyst note

active university R&E campus ASN with full routing visibility and clean current abuse posture; the one notable dated security event (May 2020) was a self-initiated network shutdown during an intrusion response, not third-party abuse of AS802 address space. allocated_date is a sourced Unknown — the ARIN RDAP record genuinely lacks a top-level registration event for this legacy autnum.