AS860

AS860 is a small, active stub ASN registered to GONET, the Government of Ontario's network, operating as one member of a much larger government-held ASN block rather than as a standalone commercial operator. It announces exactly one IPv4 prefix and no IPv6, and its only observed BGP relationship is a single upstream, TELUS Communications Inc. (AS852).

The registrant is the Ontario Ministry of Government Services, Infrastructure Technology Services (ARIN org handle GOVER-10), based at 222 Jarvis St., Toronto. ARIN RDAP serves AS860 as part of a contiguous block, handle AS857, spanning AS857–AS885 and named "GONET-ASN-17" — a normal registry structure for a government address holder, not a data error. The block's top-level RDAP registration event is dated 1990-08-07, corroborated independently by IPinfo's third-party ASN page; last-changed is 2021-02-23.

Routing scope is narrow: the sole announced prefix is 204.41.227.0/24 (256 addresses), visible to 328 of 329 RIPE RIS IPv4 peers and 0 of 322 IPv6 peers. CAIDA ranks the AS at 67,700 with a singleton customer cone (1 ASN, 1 prefix, 256 addresses) and an AS degree of 1 provider / 0 peers / 0 customers — a single-homed stub, not a transit or peering network. No IXP membership is recorded, and geolocation places the network in Toronto, Ontario.

No AS860-specific peering policy was found. The closest available source, PeeringDB net/31151, belongs to sibling ASN AS857 under the same registrant block and self-reports "Restrictive" general policy, "Private Only" contracting, and no public IX presence — informative by proximity but not a direct AS860 filing, so it is tagged as an inference rather than fact.

Operator

GONET — Government of Ontario, Ministry of Government Services, Infrastructure Technology Services (org handle GOVER-10); no single corporate legal name exists since this is a government agency, not a registered company [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/GOVER-10, peeringdb.com/net/31151

Country / RIR

CA, ARIN [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/860

Allocated

1990-08-07 (ARIN RDAP top-level registration event on the AS857-AS885 block record covering AS860); last changed 2021-02-23 [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/860, ipinfo.io/AS860 (corroborating)

Org status

active, per ARIN RDAP status on the AS857-AS885 block record [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/860

Contacts

CSOC@ontario.ca (abuse contact); registrant address Ministry of Government Services, Infrastructure Technology Services, 222 Jarvis St., 6th Floor, Toronto, ON M7A 0B6, Canada [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/GOVER-10, stat.ripe.net abuse-contact-finder for AS860

Website

Unknown at the operator/network level — no dedicated GONET or AS860 page found; RDAP contact emails use the ontario.ca domain, and ontario.ca's own IT-standards page makes no mention of GONET or AS860 [Unknown] — ontario.ca/page/information-technology-standards

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal as of an August 2026 search (CleanTalk, Spamhaus, AbuseIPDB, Talos); NANOG Spoofer Report flagged SAV issues 2023-03-15 to 2023-07-07; CAIDA cliqueMember: true is an unresolved anomaly given AS degree; bgp.he.net's "announces bogons" notice is single-source [Confirmed for CleanTalk/NANOG items; Unknown for uncorroborated bogon notice] — cleantalk.org/blacklists/as860, seclists.org/nanog/2023/Aug/71, asrank.caida.org/asns/860, bgp.he.net/AS860

Network & routing

Network type

government network (single-homed stub within a large Ontario government ASN estate); PeeringDB classifies sibling AS857 as "Government" [Likely, inferred from same-block sibling] — peeringdb.com/net/31151

Size

1 IPv4 prefix (204.41.227.0/24, 256 addresses), 0 IPv6; customer cone = 1 ASN, 1 prefix, 256 addresses [Confirmed] — stat.ripe.net routing-status/announced-prefixes for AS860, asrank.caida.org/asns/860

Routing/peering

sole upstream AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.); AS degree provider=1, peer=0, customer=0; CAIDA AS rank 67,700; no distinct settlement-free peers observed; no IXP membership [Confirmed] — bgp.he.net/AS860, bgp.tools/as/860, asrank.caida.org/asns/860

RPKI

204.41.227.0/24 validates "unknown" (no covering ROA) [Confirmed] — stat.ripe.net rpki-validation for AS860

Notable usage

single-homed, non-transit stub segment inside the contiguous AS857–AS885 "GONET-ASN-17" block; sibling AS808 (GONET-ASN-1) held by the same registrant [Confirmed for block/registrant facts] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/860, rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/GOVER-10

Related ASNs

AS857–AS885 (GONET-ASN-17 block, same registrant GOVER-10); AS808 (GONET-ASN-1, same org); AS852 (TELUS, sole upstream) [Confirmed]

ASN / holder

AS860, RDAP autnum block name "GONET-ASN-17"; RIPEstat holder string "GONET-ASN-17 - GONET" [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/860

Analyst note

AS860 is not an independently branded operator; it is one small stub ASN inside the government-owned AS857–AS885 block. The AS857-specific PeeringDB filing (net/31151) is a sibling-ASN inference, not an AS860 filing — no PeeringDB record exists for AS860 itself.