-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Apr 6, 2005, at 4:38 AM, RIPE NCC RIS wrote:
Those projects you were mentioning seems to be quite useful for Internet community. As RIS Project, we like to contribute. But we would just like to mention that it's very important for us that the BGP data we provide is not used for other than research purpose or implementing new monitoring tools. Intentionally or accidently, that data should never be passed any of your peers. If that would happpen, it would put us into difficult situations.
Greetings RIPE, We definitely understand your concerns. Many of our peers have similar conditions. All of our peering sessions for bgp data are configured with a standard peer-group that blocks all outbound advertisements. router bgp 65222 neighbor BGP-INCOMING peer-group neighbor BGP-INCOMING ebgp-multihop 200 neighbor BGP-INCOMING version 4 neighbor BGP-INCOMING soft-reconfiguration inbound neighbor BGP-INCOMING prefix-list block-all out [...] ! ip prefix-list block-all description Block all announcements ip prefix-list block-all seq 5 deny 0.0.0.0/0 le 32 We definitely guarantee that the data will never be redistributed without your permission. The data will be used solely for improving our Internet monitoring utilities. If you would like this guarantee in writing let me know and I'll try to arrange it. Thanks for your consideration. - -- DAVE DEITRICH deitrich@cymru.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.1 iQA/AwUBQlrp8UiQQdywQH32EQLNdwCfcSezPxrX3Li1/ot2dDZ+zbhImuMAoIxX 7D5Qc8oPo3QVcCLN2dYwNYqE =0CMn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----