Hi Webbies, After a quick cha(n)t with AV and SK, I made some modifications. Please check. ==>Comments below.
The page that Matthew came up with is good as an 'about-ris' page. Adrian kindly revised it a little so maybe you can use the following:
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The Routing Information Service (RIS) started as a RIPE NCC project in 1999. Currently there are over 300 IPv4 and IPv6 peers at 12 data collection points in Europe, Japan and North America
The project aims to collect and store Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing information and make it publicly available for the Internet community. Network operators can troubleshoot routing problems by looking at data collected over time without being limited to a single BGP view. Archived raw RIS data is also available, which can be used for
==>"Can" is ambiguous. It is always/mainly used for research. I haven't heard of anyone (directly) using RIS raw data to debug route probs in their NW.
research purposes.
You can improve the RIS by providing a BGP feed. You can find
==>"Improve" is wrong.
a list of RIS peering locations at:
http://www.ris.ripe.net/cgi-bin/rrcstatus.cgi Peering requests can be sent to <rispeering@ripe.net> or through a web form, you can find at: http://www.ris.ripe.net/cgi-bin/peerreg.cgi ============================================================ => Rest is fine, meaning I don't want to hear anything more about it ;) If Adrian wants instructions, then he's welcome to call 405 in 15 mins. Cheers, Matthew