AS863

AS863 is an active Canadian government ASN, registered to GONET, and it is a routed-but-minimal stub network: a single announced IPv4 /24 behind one upstream, with no downstream customers and no public peering presence.

The registrant organization on the ARIN RDAP record is GONET, addressed to the Ministry of Government Services, Infrastructure Technology Services in Toronto. A separate technical/administrative contact on the same record names the current parent as the Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement — reflecting a ministry rename since the registrant contact was created in 2007 — which together identify AS863 as internal Ontario Public Service network infrastructure rather than a commercial ISP.

AS863 falls inside ARIN's block record GONET-ASN-17 (AS857–AS885); that record's top-level registration event is dated 1990-08-07, with a last-changed event of 2021-02-23. This date is independently corroborated by ipinfo.io's separately computed allocation date and by bgp.tools' registration display, both agreeing on 7 August 1990.

Routing data is consistent across RIPEstat, CAIDA, bgp.he.net, and bgp.tools: AS863 announces exactly one prefix, 204.41.230.0/24 (256 addresses), no IPv6, seen by 328 of 329 RIPE RIS IPv4 peers. CAIDA's customer cone is a singleton (1 ASN, 1 prefix, 256 addresses), AS rank 67,700, with a single provider relationship to AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.) and zero peers or customers.

No ROA covers the announced prefix — RIPEstat's RPKI validation returns "unknown" with zero validating ROAs — and no PeeringDB record exists for this ASN (peeringdb.com/asn/863 returns 404). No standalone GONET operator website was located; ontario.ca is the general provincial portal and does not mention GONET or this ASN specifically.

Operator

GONET — Government of Ontario network infrastructure unit, currently under the Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement, Infrastructure Technology Services (Toronto, ON) [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/863

Country / RIR

CA, ARIN [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/863

Allocated

1990-08-07 (ARIN RDAP autnum block GONET-ASN-17, AS857–AS885, top-level registration event; not an individual AS863-only assignment date); last changed 2021-02-23 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/863, corroborated https://ipinfo.io/AS863, https://bgp.tools/as/863

Org status

active per ARIN RDAP autnum status field [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/863

Contacts

abuse — CSOC@ontario.ca; RDAP technical/admin contacts (Ontario IP Administration, Cyber Security Branch, Domain Registration) reachable at @ontario.ca; HQ 222 Jarvis St., 6th Floor, Toronto, ON M7A 0B6, Canada

[Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/data/abuse-contact-finder/data.json?resource=AS863, https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/863

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no confirmed abuse signal as of an August 2026 search; Qrator Radar shows a clean routing-security profile; Spamhaus, AbuseIPDB, Talos, and OTX checks returned access errors and are recorded Unknown; NANOG archive search returned 0 matches; one uncorroborated bgp.he.net "announces bogons" note is flagged, not asserted

Network & routing

Network type

government/enterprise stub network (Ontario Public Service internal infrastructure), not a commercial ISP or transit provider [Likely] — https://bgp.he.net/AS863, https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/863

Size

1 IPv4 prefix (204.41.230.0/24, 256 addresses), 0 IPv6 prefixes; customer cone = 1 ASN, 1 prefix, 256 addresses (singleton/stub) [Confirmed] — https://api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/863, https://stat.ripe.net/data/announced-prefixes/data.json?resource=AS863

Routing/peering

single provider relationship, AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.); 0 peers, 0 customers per CAIDA asnDegree; no PeeringDB record (404 as of Aug 2026 check) [Confirmed for AS852 relationship; Unknown for any published peering policy] — https://bgp.he.net/AS863, https://api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/863, https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/863

RPKI

unvalidated — RIPEstat rpki-validation for 204.41.230.0/24 returns status "unknown" with 0 validating ROAs; bgp.he.net independently reports no RPKI-valid or -invalid records

[Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/data/rpki-validation/data.json?resource=AS863&prefix=204.41.230.0/24, https://bgp.he.net/AS863

Notable usage

no operator-published description found; the ASN's sole prefix hosts no public-facing domains per ipinfo.io, and its RDAP technical contacts are internal Ontario government groups (Ontario IP Administration, Cyber Security Branch, Domain Registration), consistent with internal government network administration

[Likely] — https://ipinfo.io/AS863, https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/863

Related ASNs

AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc., sole observed upstream provider, not an affiliated org); AS863 sits within the ARIN block registration AS857–AS885 (GONET-ASN-17), though individual assignment status of the other numbers in that range is unconfirmed [Likely for AS852 relationship; Unknown for sibling-block assignment] — https://bgp.he.net/AS863, https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/863

Analyst note

Dormant-adjacent stub, not fully dormant — AS863 carries live routing (one /24, single upstream AS852/TELUS) but has no public peering footprint, no PeeringDB record, and no discoverable operator website; treat as internal Ontario government infrastructure with minimal external routing surface. No RPKI coverage on its one prefix. [Likely]