AS818

AS818 is a small, currently active autonomous system registered under ARIN to the Department of Communications (registrant handle DOC-AS) and operated in practice by the Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC), a federal government science and telecommunications research agency under Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED).

ARIN's RDAP record shows the autnum was registered on 1993-04-21 and last changed 2002-12-07, making it one of Canada's older government-held ASNs. The registrant address, 3701 Carling Avenue in Ottawa, matches CRC's long-standing research campus. CRC's own institutional history includes the Alouette 1 satellite program, early Canadian digital-television standards work, and optical-fiber research — none of which is independently tied to this specific ASN's routing history.

Live routing data shows AS818 announces exactly one IPv4 prefix, 142.92.0.0/16 (65,536 addresses), and no IPv6 space. RIPEstat's route-collector network sees the prefix from 327 of 328 peers, and CAIDA ranks the ASN 14,259th globally with a customer cone limited to itself — one ASN, one prefix, no downstream customers.

The only observed relationship, in both CAIDA's AS-degree data and RIPEstat's neighbour count, is a single upstream/peer: AS2682 (Shared Services Canada), the federal government's shared IT-infrastructure provider. AS818 has a PeeringDB record but discloses no peering-policy text and lists no IX presence, consistent with a small, government-internal network rather than a commercial operator.

Operator

Department of Communications (ARIN registrant "DOC-AS"); operated today by Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC), an agency of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum/818, ised-isde.canada.ca CRC page

Country / RIR

Canada (CA), ARIN [Confirmed] — CAIDA AS Rank, ARIN RDAP

Allocated

1993-04-21 (ARIN RDAP autnum top-level registration event, first-party RIR fact); last changed 2002-12-07 [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum/818 top-level events

Org status

Active (ARIN RDAP status field) [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum/818

Contacts

no publishable role contact exists on this record — the sole abuse/technical POC (ARIN handle JHO12-ARIN) is a natural person per its RDAP vCard, so its contact detail is correctly withheld; the POC has been flagged unvalidated by ARIN since 2010-06-14. Registrant organisation is the Department of Communications / Communications Research Centre Canada, 3701 Carling Avenue / PO Box 11490 Station H, Ottawa, ON K2H 8S2 (org premises)

[Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum/818

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-08-01 — not in Spamhaus ASN-DROP (direct feed check inconclusive; no corroborating web hits), NANOG/seclists archives, or general threat-intel searches; bgp.he.net's "announces bogons" flag is noted but not independently corroborated

Network & routing

Network type

government scientific/research organization; operates a private wireless telecom R&D test network in Ottawa, not a commercial ISP/transit provider [Likely] — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Research_Centre_Canada

Size

1 IPv4 prefix (142.92.0.0/16, 65,536 addresses), 0 IPv6 prefixes; customer cone = 1 ASN, 1 prefix, 65,536 addresses [Confirmed] — RIPEstat, CAIDA AS Rank, bgp.he.net, bgp.tools (2026-08)

Routing/peering

sole upstream/peer AS2682 (Shared Services Canada); CAIDA degree total 1 (customer 0, peer 0, provider 1); IPv4 visible to 327/328 RIS peers, IPv6 to 0/322 (none announced); PeeringDB record exists but discloses no policy text and no IX presence

[Confirmed] — RIPEstat routing-status, CAIDA AS Rank, bgp.he.net, bgp.tools, peeringdb.com/asn/818

RPKI

Unknown — no ROA validation status found in sources consulted; bgp.he.net notes the announced route "matches unauthenticated IRR source" and flags the ASN as announcing bogons [Unknown] — bgp.he.net/AS818

Notable usage

CRC has a documented history of Canadian telecom R&D (Alouette 1 satellite, digital-TV standards, optical fiber, an early LTE test network); this is institutional notability for the operator, not a verified AS818-specific traffic claim

[Likely] — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Research_Centre_Canada

Related ASNs

none confirmed for this entry; any broader Government of Canada research-network ASN ties are unverified [Unknown]

Analyst note

A small, low-profile federal Canadian government research ASN announcing one /16 through a single upstream (AS2682). No abuse signal was found, though bgp.he.net's "announces bogons" note merits a light monitoring flag rather than a clean bill of health; the stale (since-2010) ARIN POC reduces confidence in the contact channel specifically, not in the routing facts.