On 20.09 10:29, Andrei Robachevsky wrote:
Hi Henk,
Henk Uijterwaal wrote:
Hi,
Mainly FYI. I spoke to Pino Batista last week @ SIGCOMM. He is Lorenzo's old boss in Rome and head of the department that wrote BGPlay. Amongst other things, we discussed long term support for BGPlay, both regular maintenance and adding new features (like ASN32 support, showing delays, better integration with other tools). They are very happy that the tool is being used and are definitely interested in adding new features based on user feedback. The model we have in mind, is something like:
a. Rome will continue to work on this and provide binaries. b. The NCC will have a contact. This contact person will install the binaries, run tests and give feedback. c. The person from Rome visits us once or twice a year, for issues that cannot be dealt with by email and to discuss new features. d. We'll send some euros to support (a) and (c).
This sounded reasonable to me in first order. He'll put something more detailed on paper in the next week or so.
Thanks for this. How well is it supported and being developed now? Are there new versions available and do they have a release plan?
What are the licensing aspects of it? I am very interested in extending the functionality ( for instance merging the BPlay with the TTM). We may need more flexibility in code development than just relying on Roma.
We may. I suggest formalising the first part and worrying about the second part when we are sure that we need it. Build a formal relationship in stages and only take the it to the stage that is needed. Just a suggestion. Daniel