AS872

AS872 is an actively announced autonomous system operated by the Government of Ontario as part of GONET, the province's internal government network, originating a single IPv4 /24 with essentially all of its BGP relationship running through one upstream carrier.

AS872 sits inside a range-registered ARIN block, handle AS857, name GONET-ASN-17, spanning AS857 through AS885 — the block, not AS872 individually, carries ARIN's registration event. That top-level registration date is 1990-08-07, with a last-changed event of 2021-02-23; ARIN status is active. Registrant is org handle GOVER-10 (Ministry of Government Services / Infrastructure Technology Services, Toronto).

Operationally this is a private government enterprise network rather than a commercial ISP. Ontario's GO-ITS 571 standard describes GONET as the network underlying "all data, voice, and video networks used within the Ontario Public Service," spanning data centre infrastructure, LAN/WAN, and unified communications, run as a centralized managed service.

Routing is minimal: one announced prefix, 204.41.239.0/24 (256 addresses), no IPv6, and a CAIDA AS rank of 67,700 with a singleton customer cone (itself, one prefix). The sole observed BGP adjacency is AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.), which multiple sources treat as the upstream/transit provider rather than a settlement-free peer — CAIDA's degree breakdown shows one provider relationship and zero peer or customer relationships.

No PeeringDB record exists for AS872 (confirmed via two separate 404 responses), and no operator-published peering policy was located, so peering stance is Unknown rather than open or closed. RPKI coverage is absent: no ROA was found and validation status reads unknown for the announced prefix.

Operator

Government of Ontario — GONET (Ontario Public Service Network), Ministry of Government Services / Infrastructure Technology Services; ARIN registrant org handle GOVER-10 [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/872

Country / RIR

Canada (Ontario), ARIN [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/872

Allocated

1990-08-07 (ARIN RDAP autnum top-level registration event on the block record AS857–AS885, handle AS857, name GONET-ASN-17, which contains AS872); last changed 2021-02-23 [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/872; corroborated by bgp.tools' independent registration-age readout ("36 years old" as of 2026) [Likely for cross-source corroboration]

Org status

active (ARIN RDAP status field) [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/872

Contacts

registrant address Ministry of Government Services / Infrastructure Technology Services, 222 Jarvis St., 6th Floor, Toronto, ON M7A 0B6, Canada; Cyber Security Branch abuse/tech POC CSOC@ontario.ca [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/872

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of an August 2026 search (Spamhaus/general threat-intel terms, NANOG/seclists archives); AbuseIPDB block-check returned HTTP 403 and is Unknown, not confirmed clean; bgp.he.net flags an "announces bogons" monitoring note as a caveat; IPinfo reputation module shows "not currently ranked"

Network & routing

Network type

private/internal government enterprise network (Ontario Public Service — OPS), not a commercial ISP or transit provider; per GO-ITS 571 it spans data centre infrastructure, LAN/WAN, and unified communications as a centralized managed service

[Confirmed] — ontario.ca/page/go-its-571tes-network-quality-service-standard

Size

1 IPv4 prefix (204.41.239.0/24, 256 addresses), 0 IPv6 prefixes; customer cone = 1 ASN (itself), 1 prefix, 256 addresses [Confirmed] — RIPEstat routing-status/announced-prefixes (2026-08-09), CAIDA AS Rank, bgp.he.net, bgp.tools

Routing/peering

sole upstream AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.), IPv4 only, single observed BGP adjacency; CAIDA degree breakdown: provider 1, peer 0, customer 0 [Likely — no source publishes a formal contractual transit designation, but multiple sources agree]. Peering policy Unknown; no PeeringDB record for AS872 exists (confirmed via two 404 responses)

[Unknown] — bgp.tools/as/872, asrank.caida.org/asns/872, peeringdb.com/asn/872

RPKI

no ROA found; validation status Unknown for 204.41.239.0/24 as of a RIPEstat rpki-validation query on 2026-08-09; bgp.tools shows an unauthenticated IRR route object (not RPKI-signed) [Confirmed negative] — RIPEstat rpki-validation, bgp.tools/as/872

Notable usage

underlies GONET, the Ontario Public Service's internal data/voice/video network per the GO-ITS 571 QoS standard; no dedicated public-facing GONET microsite was found [Confirmed] — ontario.ca/page/go-its-571tes-network-quality-service-standard

Related ASNs

block-registered alongside AS872 under the same ARIN range AS857–AS885 (handle AS857, name GONET-ASN-17); individual sibling ASNs within that range were not itemized in this pass [Confirmed for block range; Unknown for full sibling list] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/872

Analyst note

Encountered as a small, single-homed government-operated ASN inside a block-registered ARIN range; live routing is minimal (one /24) and single-homed to TELUS (AS852), with no RPKI coverage and no PeeringDB presence. No MAC/OUI or IEEE data applies to this entry. — Analyst synthesis