Here's my first shot at the RIS section for the AR2004. I intentionally focussed on things of interest for the outside world. Comments by Thu. Morning please. Henk - - - - - - 5.6. Routing Information Service The Routing Information Service (RIS) has been established to collect inter-provider routing information at various points in the Internet infrastructure in near real-time. The information is time-stamped and stored in a database. In 2004, the RIPE NCC focussed on providing a stable service, increasing the number of collection points and peers, and the development of additional products based on the collected data. Remote Route Collectors (RRCs) are being used to collect data for the RIS. In 2004, 2 more RRCs were deployed, at the NYIIX (New York, USA) and DECIX (Frankfurt, Germany) while work is in progress to install collectors at the PAIX (Palo Alto, USA) and MIX (Moscow, Russia). This will bring the total number of RRCs to 13. The number of peering sessions grew by from 333 in December 2003 to 415 in December 2004. This includes 51 IPv6 sessions. During 2004, the usage of the RIS website almost doubled, from 16,000 visitors/month downloading 360,000 pages in December 2003, to 30,000 visitors/month downloading 570,000 pages in November 2004. The two main new products based on the RIS data introduced in 2004 were the myASn tool and the BGPlay visualization system. Development of the RISwhois tool described in the AR2003 was completed. The objective of myASn is to devise a control/notification system for BGP route propagation in near real-time, which allows users to specify expected paths and others attributes from peers with the RIS. If a deviation in routing information is detected, the user will be notified of that deviation. A prototype of the myASn tool was shown at RIPE 46. During 2004, the prototype was turned into a full product and released at the RIPE 49 meeting. For more on myASn, see: http://www.ris.ripe.net/myasn.html BGPlay is a Java application which displays animated graphs of the routing activity of a certain prefix within a specified time interval. Its graphical nature makes it much easier to understand how BGP updates affect the routing of a specific prefix than by analyzing the updates themselves. For more on BGPlay, see: http://www.ris.ripe.net/bgplay/ BGPlay was designed and written by the Computer Networks Research Group at Roma Tre University, and integrated with the RIS during a 9 month visit by one of the authors to the RIPE NCC. <INSERT EXAMPLE PICTURE OF BGPLAY HERE> The RIPE NCC also collaborated with several university and corporate research groups on the analysis of the RIS data. Other research projects were carried out independently of the RIPE NCC using the raw BGP data collected by the RIS. An overview of published papers can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/ris/analysis.html In May, the RIPE NCC organized, in collaboration with Intel Research, the Technical University of Munich, the University of Karlsruhe and Schlund and Partners AG, a workshop on Inter Domain Routing (IDRWS). About 25 representatives from industry and research met for two days and discussed future directions in routing research and applications of the RIS data. Later during the year, RIPE NCC staff attended and contributed to various conferences in the networking field, such as IMC2004, SIGCOMM, PAM2004 and others. More information about the RIS can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/ris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Henk Uijterwaal Email: henk.uijterwaal(at)ripe.net RIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.amsterdamned.org/~henk P.O.Box 10096 Singel 258 Phone: +31.20.5354414 1001 EB Amsterdam 1016 AB Amsterdam Fax: +31.20.5354445 The Netherlands The Netherlands Mobile: +31.6.55861746 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Look here junior, don't you be so happy. And for Heaven's sake, don't you be so sad. (Tom Verlaine)