Henk Uijterwaal (RIPE-NCC) wrote:
Why make this a service? ========================
Mapping IP to AS can be used in many tools, both that are published in the public domain as in tools used inside LIR's only. All these tools will benefit from more accurate data.
To use a routing based IP-AS mapping for TTM, we need to develop and maintain some amount of code. Adding an interface to access the same data from the outside, requires very little additional work. In fact, I think that we'd be doing the community a dis-service if we would not make this tool available to everybody.
I *assume* that the development of this service will be funded 100% by the paying customers of the TTM and that any benefit that RIPE members will gain will be as a pleasant and cost-free side effect ? If not, why not ? Peter