[ris-int] Tools using the RIS
Henk Uijterwaal henk at ripe.net
Tue Oct 25 22:58:02 CEST 2005
At 04:56 25/10/2005, Rene Wilhelm wrote: > > Arife and I just sat through a bof on BGP analysis where a few tools > > using RIS and/or RV data were presented. I've no idea how useful those > > tools actually are but if they are only presented at NANOG, I doubt that > > many people in the RIPE region will hear that tehy are available, let > > alone test drive them. > > > > Random idea: shouldn't we make a page on the ris website with links > > to all the tools that we know of. > >That's one thing, but what I think the RIPE community (operators) would >really like is for the RIS service to be expanded with tools we consider best, >as was done with BGPlay. Operators don't have time to investigate the >work done by researchers in various universities, they need hands on >tools working on the full set of RIS data. In principle I agree, but I do see two problems here: * We're not operators, so it will be hard for us to judge if a tool is valuable or not. And I certainly don't want to label tools as "not useful". * If we support a tool, then we should be fairly certain that it will exist for a while. I.e. it is not a student's project where the student has gone on, that suddenly disappears or is not supported. For BGPlay we did check that the Rome group would continue to develop it. So, I think we should be neutral here and just list what is available. However, when we insert a link, we can always ask the authors to post to the lists, introduce the tool and ask for feedback. If there is a good product, people will pick it up. Henk >With the large number of peers RIS has now, any query via the RIS cgis >yields an overwhelming amount of data. RIS could sure do with some >intermediate, higher level, overview of the results. > >BGPinspect e.g. starts with a nice summary (graphical and in text) >before listing the raw results. (http://bgpinspect.merit.edu/) > >-- Rene > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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)
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