Dear Colleagues, As part of the RIPE NCC's Routing Information System (RIS) service, there are periodical BGP announcements and withdrawals of beacon prefixes originating from AS12654. These beacons were implemented in 2002 to support the study of route-flap damping effects and convergence. The RIS routing beacon address schema can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/projects/ris/docs/beaconlist.html Your Feedback ============ We would like to request your feedback about the beacons and whether you find them useful. If you are using the beacons for any purpose, we would like to hear from you about your project or research. We are happy to continue to support the RIS beacons and fine-tune them to users requests. We can also discontinue their use if the RIPE community indicates that there is no longer a need for them. Please send your feedback and any questions or comments about this to: ris@ripe.net. More Information =============== More details about the RIS can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/projects/ris/index.html Further information about the route-flap damping studies can be found in the RIPE Document, ripe-378: 'RIPE Routing Working Group Recommendations on Route-flap Damping', at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-378.html Regards, Vasco Asturiano --------------------------- Information Services RIPE NCC http://www.ripe.net