Arife and I just sat through a bof on BGP analysis where a few tools using RIS and/or RV data were presented. I've no idea how useful those tools actually are but if they are only presented at NANOG, I doubt that many people in the RIPE region will hear that tehy are available, let alone test drive them.
Random idea: shouldn't we make a page on the ris website with links to all the tools that we know of.
That's one thing, but what I think the RIPE community (operators) would really like is for the RIS service to be expanded with tools we consider best, as was done with BGPlay. Operators don't have time to investigate the work done by researchers in various universities, they need hands on tools working on the full set of RIS data. With the large number of peers RIS has now, any query via the RIS cgis yields an overwhelming amount of data. RIS could sure do with some intermediate, higher level, overview of the results. BGPinspect e.g. starts with a nice summary (graphical and in text) before listing the raw results. (http://bgpinspect.merit.edu/) -- Rene