AS884

AS884 is an actively routed Canadian autonomous system registered under ARIN to org handle GOVER-10, whose org record name is literally "GONET" — the Ontario Ministry of Government Services' Infrastructure Technology Services unit, based in Toronto. As of an August 2026 check it originates exactly one IPv4 prefix, 204.41.251.0/24 (256 addresses), zero IPv6, and is seen by all 327 RIPE RIS peers monitoring IPv4.

The ASN sits inside a bulk ARIN block, AS857–AS885, named GONET-ASN-17. The block's top-level RDAP registration event dates to 1990-08-07, with a last-changed event of 2021-02-23. The org object GOVER-10 itself carries a separate registration date of 2007-09-24 (last updated 2024-07-29) — that date describes the organization record, not the original ASN allocation, and the two should not be conflated.

CAIDA topology data (AS rank 67,700; degree total 1 — 0 customers, 0 peers, 1 provider) shows a single-homed stub network whose customer cone is only itself: one prefix, 256 addresses. Hurricane Electric's BGP toolkit identifies TELUS Communications Inc. (AS852) as the sole observed upstream/peer, though this is third-party observed routing data rather than an operator-stated contract. AS884 has no PeeringDB record (asn/884 returns HTTP 404) and no known IXP presence.

No operator-official website, network-type page, or peering-policy page could be located for GONET despite direct probing of plausible ontario.ca URLs, all of which returned HTTP 404. What is confirmed is limited to ARIN registry data and third-party routing observations; network type is inferred as a provincial government enterprise/WAN network from the ARIN registrant field alone, not from any operator disclosure.

Operator

GONET (Government of Ontario Network) — ARIN org handle GOVER-10, "Ministry of Government Services, Infrastructure Technology Services," 222 Jarvis St., 6th Floor, Toronto, ON M7A 0B6, Canada [Confirmed] — https://whois.arin.net/rest/org/GOVER-10, https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/884

Country / RIR

CA, ARIN [Confirmed] — RIPEstat abuse-contact-finder (authoritative_rir: arin); CAIDA geolocation (43.66, -79.39, downtown Toronto)

Allocated

1990-08-07 (ARIN RDAP top-level registration event for autnum block AS857–AS885, which contains AS884); last changed 2021-02-23. Org object GOVER-10 carries a separate 2007-09-24 registration date describing the org record, not the ASN allocation

[Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/884

Org status

ARIN RDAP status "active" for the AS857–AS885 block; no independent operator-official status page found [Confirmed for RDAP status] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/884

Contacts

abuse CSOC@ontario.ca (Cyber Security Operations Centre); registrant address 222 Jarvis St., 6th Floor, Toronto, ON M7A 0B6, Canada [Confirmed] — RIPEstat abuse-contact-finder; https://whois.arin.net/rest/org/GOVER-10

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-08-09 — not in Spamhaus ASN-DROP, the NANOG mailing list archive (marc.info), or general web/news search for AS884 or GONET; AbuseIPDB (403) and AlienVault OTX (404) could not be verified [Confirmed for the checks completed; Unknown for the two blocked checks] — https://www.spamhaus.org/drop/asndrop.json, https://marc.info/?l=nanog&q=AS884&s=AS884

Network & routing

Network type

inferred provincial government enterprise/WAN network (Ministry of Government Services, Infrastructure Technology Services); no operator "about" page or network-type disclosure was found [Likely] — https://whois.arin.net/rest/org/GOVER-10

Size

1 IPv4 prefix / 256 addresses (204.41.251.0/24); 0 IPv6 prefixes; customer cone = 1 ASN (itself), 1 prefix, 256 addresses [Confirmed] — RIPEstat announced-prefixes / routing-status; CAIDA AS Rank; bgp.he.net (2026-08)

Routing/peering

single-homed stub — CAIDA asnDegree total 1 (customer 0, peer 0, provider 1); IPv4 seen by 327/327 RIS peers, IPv6 by 0/321. bgp.he.net names the sole observed upstream/peer as AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.), third-party observed rather than an operator-stated policy [Confirmed for degree/visibility; Likely for the AS852 identity] — https://bgp.he.net/AS884

RPKI

1 of 1 announced prefix checked; status "unknown" for 204.41.251.0/24 — no covering ROA found via Routinator/RIPEstat rpki-validation as of 2026-08-09 [Confirmed] — RIPEstat rpki-validation endpoint

Notable usage

no operator-official notability found; only third-party bgp.he.net data available (204.41.251.0/24 observed across roughly 717 AS paths, average path length ~4.6 hops) [Unknown for any operator-stated usage; Likely for the third-party routing observation] — https://bgp.he.net/AS884

Related ASNs

bulk ARIN block AS857–AS885 ("GONET-ASN-17"), same org GOVER-10 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/884

Analyst note

AS884 is a small, single-homed government-operator ASN (Government of Ontario Network) with no PeeringDB listing, no operator-official website, and no discoverable peering policy; every routing fact traces to RIR registry data or third-party looking glasses, never to an operator-authored source. Community-forum corroboration (Reddit, general forums) was not reached this pass and is Unknown rather than a confirmed absence.