AS828

AS828 is a legacy autonomous system registered under ARIN to Shared Services Canada that is unrouted today: it announces zero IPv4 and zero IPv6 prefixes, with no current upstreams, peers, or announced address space visible in any routing source.

The RDAP record carries the AS name NLC-BNC-GC-AS, a holdover from the original registrant, the National Library of Canada / Bibliothèque Nationale du Canada. The ASN was allocated 1994-06-01 and is now registered under ARIN org handle SSC-299, Shared Services Canada — the Canadian federal government's shared-IT-services agency, headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario.

RIPEstat's routing history records exactly one origination for AS828 — 142.42.0.0/16, first and last observed 2005-03-22 — no longer announced. Hurricane Electric and bgp.tools separately claim no routing-table visibility since 2012-05-01, but that date is bundled with a since-superseded, bogon-flagged prefix on the same source page, so it is reported here without being adopted as a confirmed cutover date.

No operator-official peering policy is published for AS828 itself: Shared Services Canada's PeeringDB organization profile (org/19355) lists AS2682 and AS2675, not AS828, and no standalone PeeringDB network record exists for this ASN. CAIDA ASRank places it at rank 79459 with a singleton customer cone (1 ASN, 0 prefixes, 0 addresses) and zero degree — no customers, peers, or providers. RPKI validation is not possible: AS828 announces no prefixes, so no ROA exists to validate.

Operator

Shared Services Canada (ARIN org handle SSC-299); RDAP AS name NLC-BNC-GC-AS reflects the legacy registrant, National Library of Canada / Bibliothèque Nationale du Canada [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/828

Country / RIR

CA, ARIN [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum

Allocated

1994-06-01 (ARIN RDAP autnum top-level registration event); last changed 2018-05-30 [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum

Org status

active per ARIN RDAP status (registrant SSC-299). Operationally unrouted; RIPEstat's only recorded origination ended 2005-03-22 [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/828, stat.ripe.net routing-status/828. Hurricane Electric separately claims no table visibility since 2012-05-01, bundled with a bogon-flagged, incorrect prefix on the same page and not independently corroborated

[Likely, unconfirmed] — bgp.he.net/AS828

Contacts

Primary POC is a group role (HOSTM227-ARIN) — Hostmaster for Shared Services Canada — reachable at ssc.enterpriseddi-entreprise.spc@ssc-spc.gc.ca. Individual-kind contacts (SAUND92-ARIN, GEEMI-ARIN) and personal phone numbers are withheld per the personal-contact-detail rule. Org-level registrant is Shared Services Canada, 434 Queen Street, PO Box 9808 STN T CSC, Ottawa, ON K1G 4A8, Canada

[Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/828

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-08-07 — not in AbuseIPDB, Spamhaus, Talos Intelligence, VirusTotal, or NANOG mailing-list archives; no BGP hijacks or route leaks recorded in Qrator Radar or Cloudflare Radar as of August 2026

Network & routing

Network type

Canadian federal government network; originally a national-library institution's ASN, now under the government's shared-IT-services agency; not commercial ISP/hosting/content [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/828, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Services_Canada

Size

unrouted — 0 IPv4 prefixes / 0 IPv4 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes. RIPEstat's only recorded origination, 142.42.0.0/16, was last seen 2005-03-22 and is no longer announced [Confirmed] — stat.ripe.net routing-status/828. Hurricane Electric and bgp.tools separately state no routing-table visibility since 2012-05-01, but bundle that date with a since-corrected, bogon-flagged prefix on the same page, so it is not adopted as confirmed here

[Likely, unconfirmed] — bgp.he.net/AS828, bgp.tools/as/828

Routing/peering

no current upstreams or peers visible (AS unrouted); bgp.he.net documents an association with AS21640 (also Shared Services Canada) but this reads as a registry relationship, not an active BGP session [Likely]. No operator-official peering policy published for AS828; SSC's PeeringDB org (org/19355) lists AS2682 and AS2675, not AS828; no standalone PeeringDB network record exists for AS828 (404) [Confirmed]. CAIDA ASRank rank 79459, asnDegree 0 (no customers, peers, or providers), singleton cone (numberAsns 1, numberPrefixes 0, numberAddresses 0)

[Confirmed] — peeringdb.com/org/19355, peeringdb.com/asn/828, CAIDA ASRank/ASN 828

RPKI

Not applicable — AS828 announces no prefixes, so no ROA exists to validate; a confirmed negative, not an open validator check [Confirmed] — bgp.he.net/AS828, bgp.tools/as/828, stat.ripe.net routing-status/828

Notable usage

none documented on any operator-official source. A community gist ties Library and Archives Canada to prefix 142.78.0.0/16 — a different, since-superseded prefix, not the canonically-observed 142.42.0.0/16 for AS828 — so that attribution is not carried over here

[Confirmed sourced-null] — gist.github.com/ruebot/605426d052168156ba37

Related ASNs

AS21640 (also Shared Services Canada, documented registry association) [Likely] — bgp.he.net/AS828

Analyst note

Legacy, currently-unrouted ASN whose RDAP name traces to the National Library of Canada but which now registers to Shared Services Canada (HOSTM227-ARIN role, ssc.enterpriseddi-entreprise.spc@ssc-spc.gc.ca). No operator-official peering record exists for AS828 itself; SSC's PeeringDB profile covers AS2682/AS2675 instead. CAIDA records show ASRank 79459, a singleton customer cone, and zero BGP degree. RIPEstat's only recorded origination, 142.42.0.0/16, ended 2005-03-22; a separate Hurricane Electric claim of no table visibility since 2012-05-01 is noted but not adopted as fact, since it is bundled with a bogon-flagged, incorrect prefix on the same source page.