AS806

AS806 (SSC-299-806) is an active, currently-routed autonomous system registered under ARIN to Shared Services Canada (SSC), the Government of Canada department that runs shared network infrastructure for federal agencies. It is a small internal government network, not a commercial ISP, hosting provider, or transit carrier.

Third-party BGP data (bgp.he.net) shows AS806 originating 16 IPv4 prefixes (roughly 4,096 addresses) and no IPv6 space. It has no PeeringDB record, and no public peering policy was found on canada.ca, consistent with a closed government network that does not advertise open peering.

SSC's Connectivity service operates the Government of Canada Secure Network (GCSN / GC Networks), reportedly connecting over 400,000 federal workers across 145-plus organizations, roughly 4,000 domestic sites, and about 200 international sites. A third-party RADB note describes AS806 as an Environment Canada proxy within GCSN; SSC's own site cites the network's role in government service delivery, including the Gordie Howe International Bridge project. AS806 has three related ASNs registered under the same Shared Services Canada org handle (ARIN SSC-299) and CAIDA orgId: AS2665, AS810, and AS811.

ARIN RDAP records the autnum's top-level registration event for AS806 as 1991-06-17, last changed 2017-07-13, with status Active. CAIDA ASRank places AS806 at rank 21714, with a customer cone of 1 ASN / 16 prefixes / 4,096 addresses and an AS-degree of 3 total (0 customer, 0 peer, 3 provider). RPKI ROA validation status remains Unknown: bgp.tools, the source typically used for the valid/invalid split, returned connection refused.

Operator

Shared Services Canada / Services partagés Canada (Government of Canada department; ARIN org handle SSC-299) [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/806, canada.ca/en/shared-services/corporate/mandate.html

Country / RIR

CA, ARIN [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/806, rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/SSC-299

Allocated

1991-06-17 (ARIN RDAP autnum top-level registration event, distinct from nested entity events such as SSC-299 org registration 2013-11-19); last changed 2017-07-13 [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/806

Org status

active — ARIN RDAP status "Active"; Shared Services Canada is an active, currently operating Government of Canada department [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/806, canada.ca/en/shared-services.html

Contacts

the administrative/technical/abuse point of contact is the "Hostmaster" role record (ARIN handle HOSTM227-ARIN, org Shared Services Canada), whose organisational mailbox is ssc.enterpriseddi-entreprise.spc@ssc-spc.gc.ca. Two further NOC/abuse POC records on this object are named individuals — their vCards declare kind: "individual" — so their personal mailboxes and direct lines are withheld here. Registrant address 434 Queen Street, PO Box 9808 STN T CSC, Ottawa, ON K1G 4A8, Canada

[Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/806

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.com results; IPQualityScore rate-limited before a score could be read (Unknown, not zero); bgpstream.com unreachable (Unknown) — spamhaus.org/drop/asndrop.txt, mail-archive.com/search

Network & routing

Network type

Government/enterprise network operator, not a commercial ISP or transit/content network; operates the Government of Canada Secure Network (GCSN / GC Networks) serving 400,000+ federal workers across 145+ organizations, ~4,000 domestic and ~200 international sites

[Confirmed] — canada.ca/en/shared-services/services/connectivity.html

Size

16 IPv4 prefixes / ~4,096 addresses announced; 0 IPv6 prefixes; CAIDA ASRank 21714, customer cone 1 ASN / 16 prefixes / 4,096 addresses, AS-degree 3 total (0 customer, 0 peer, 3 provider) [Confirmed] — bgp.he.net/AS806, asrank.caida.org/asns/806

Routing/peering

no PeeringDB record (404); no public peering policy found; 3 observed BGP peers per third-party route collector — AS11079 (Zayo Bandwidth), AS2665 (Shared Services Canada, sister ASN), AS376 (RISQ Inc.) — role split between upstream/peer not cleanly separated by the source

[Likely] — bgp.he.net/AS806, peeringdb.com/asn/806

RPKI

Unknown — not assessable this session; bgp.tools (typical source for RPKI valid/invalid split) returned connection refused [Unknown]

Notable usage

backbone/proxy role within GCSN, including a third-party RADB description as an "Environment Canada proxy from GCSN"; SSC's own site cites the network's role in government service delivery (e.g. Gordie Howe International Bridge digital infrastructure story, 2026-07-27)

[Likely] — bgp.he.net/AS806, canada.ca/en/shared-services.html

Related ASNs

AS2665, AS810, AS811 — all registered under the same Shared Services Canada org handle (ARIN SSC-299) and CAIDA orgId [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/SSC-299, bgp.he.net/AS806

Analyst note

Small, actively-routed Canadian federal government ASN (Shared Services Canada) with no commercial peering footprint. CAIDA ASRank 21714, customer cone 1 ASN / 16 prefixes / 4,096 addresses, AS-degree 3 (0 customer, 0 peer, 3 provider). RPKI ROA validation status remains genuinely Unknown — bgp.tools, the source used for the valid/invalid split, returned connection refused.