On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Henk Uijterwaal wrote:
2. Geoff showed all kinds of activity plots Some of them are related to the hotspots and BGP update plots that we have.
was that his presentation on growth of the routing system (prefixes, ASes _and_ update activity) in 2005? He also flashed that at PAM. Quite nice. RIS has a lot of information, but we aren't very good in pushing the info out,making network operators aware. MyASN 1.0 was a good start, but has gone into zombie state after the restructuring (less and less people in SED to do more and more work).
I tried to find
them in the meeting but failed. Slightly related: a few weeks ago, Rene reported that some of the standard plots had not been updated since December. That means that nobody looked at them for two months. Which means that they are probably not too useful and we should consider using the CPU cycles for something else.
Those were from the RISreport. Kind of like TTM, you only look at them when you feel something is wrong. I don't believe CPU is an issue.
Perhaps we should review the standard set of RIS plots that we produce, remove what is never used, add new plots and make it a bit easier to find.
the last part is most important. The whole RIS web site could do with restructuring to make it clearer what information is out there, where to find it. Marketing and Communications .... I learned at PAM that RIS data are much appreciated by the research community. Even U. of Oregon researchers acknowledge that for some analyses RIS has better data than routeviews. However, I have a feeling we are loosing touch with the NOC community, the RIPE NCC members. From Geoff's talk it's clear some folk don't have a clue what effects their poking with BGP traffic engineering has on the global routing system. Maybe the training department should expand the Routing course with a long section on "how to use the RIS"? Without continued education, RIS DB and related services will only be used by small subset of technically inclined, curious individuals. -- Rene