This looks fine. Please link the rrc12 news flash to http://www.ripe.net/ris/risintro.html (page edited) Cheers, Matthew

-----Original Message----- From: Adrian Bedford [mailto:adrian@ripe.net] Sent: 29 July 2004 14:56 To: Matthew Williams Cc: webmaster@ripe.net Subject: RIS Info Page

Hey Matthew

Sorry for not getting back sooner. I'm really snowed under right now again.

The RIS Page text will be used on the new website, which is supposed to be launching at the end of August, but in the meantime, if you want to use the text we talked about, I've taken on board your comments and this is the definitive text...can you create/edit the page you talked about. When the new site goes live, we will be able to easily edit it anyway and save you the hassle....

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 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 research purposes.

You can support the RIS by providing a BGP feed. You can find 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 * RRC09 was decommissioned in May, 2004