[ris-int] Fwd: RIS things, was Re: [np] Conf report: Peering Forum
Henk Uijterwaal henk at ripe.net
Fri Mar 31 14:46:48 CEST 2006
>Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:38:49 +0200 >To: Arife Vural <arife at ripe.net> >From: Henk Uijterwaal <henk at ripe.net> >Subject: RIS things, was Re: [np] Conf report: Peering Forum >Cc: ris > >Hi Arife, > >(Distribution list reduced) > >Thanks, interesting. In case you ever want to do a ris-overview >talk, I do have a presentation on the shelf. (And I also have >generic NCC services talk). Something else: > >2 RIS related things I heard at the IETF: > > 1. Geoff Huston complained that it was hard to download the full > data sets. Simon Leinen suggested in the IEPG to put the data > on bittorrent and even offered 2 machines with diskspace as > servers. I promised to take this up here. > > 2. Geoff showed all kinds of activity plots. Some of them are related > to the hotspots and BGP update plots that we have. I tried to find > them in the meeting but failed. Slightly related: a few weeks ago, > Rene reported that some of the standard plots had not been updated > since December. That means that nobody looked at them for two > months. Which means that they are probably not too useful and we > should consider using the CPU cycles for something else. > > Perhaps we should review the standard set of RIS plots that we > produce, remove what is never used, add new plots and make it a > bit easier to find. > >And at APNIC: > > 3. Milton (RRC15 host) asked about installing 7 or so RRC's in the LACNIC > region. His idea was to have RRC's at all IX's there, so people could > really debug problems in the LACNIC area. > > This is probably a good idea FOR THEM, I just wonder if we should be > operating this. If it is LACNIC specific, then it might be better to > tell then HOW the RIS works and have them copy the system. They > can then operate it themselves. > > I also promised to bring this up internally. > >Perhaps we can meet and discuss all this sometime soon? > >Henk > > > > >At 21:16 27/03/2006, Arife Vural wrote: > >>Conference report: >> >>Conference: Peering Forum >>Date: 18.03.2006 - 23.03.2006 >>Venue: Miami, US >>URL: http://www.peeringforum.com >>Attendee(s): Arife Vural >>Department(s): SED >> >>* Scope of conference: >> >>Everything that's related with Peering >> >> >>* Reason for attendance: >> >>Related with my job >> >> >>* Summary (main aspects & outcome of the conference, personal evaluation >> thereof, impressions, interesting floor talks etc.): >> >>o Met a lot of people peering people. >> >>o Had chat with De-CIX guys. They offered us to have a RIS presentation in >>one of their technical meetings. One is in April and the other one is in >>October. Bernhard Krönung is the contact person to discuss the detail more >>He wil be attending RIPE52. >> >>Bernhard also mentioned about OpneBGPD software. They are planing to use on >>their route server. He said it's more stable than Quagga. It does not crash >>so often. It has a mode to configure as route server. That mode allows BGP >>speaker to announce all routes it gets from the peers rather than only the >>best ones. >> >>It might worth to spend some cycles on it to find out pros & cons. >> >>o I got some free transit donation for >>K-anycast server. Thanks Josh Snowhorn, >>Terramark for his help. Some of them already contacted with OPS. With some I >>will contact during the week. Some of those >>guys are also willing to peer with >>RIS. >> >>TeleGlobe, Delhi is offered free transit. I >>think it would be nice to have with >>eBGP on RRC00. We do not have any peers in that part of the world. >> >>o prolexic.com >> >>Those guys are protecting companies from DDos >>attacks. They are doing quite a >>good job chasing the hackers. They work with >>FBI and other organization to track >>them down. It's a small company. When they find >>a site is under DDos attack, by >>using BGP and DNS, they directed to the routes >>on their servers and work on to stop >>the attack, while the original site is up and running. They have quite a few >>customers. >> >>o QoS >> >>There was a panel about QoS effort at IX >>points. Most of IXs do not do anything >>other than watching their bandwith usage statistics. Henk Steenman mentioned >>about TTM box they have at AMS-IX to measure >>the gitter. He said those graphs are >>publicly available. Data&Switch and TeleGlobe >>might consider go such a solution. >> >>I have to contact with them about RIS peering, >>during that time I will send link >>about TTM. >> >>o Next PeeringForum >> >>If there will be Peering Forum next year, it >>would be worth to put a presentation >>about what RIPE NCC does and mention the projects like RIS, TTM and Routing >>Registry Courses and roughly what we do at the RIPE NCC. >> >>Some people have no idea what we do. Some knows >>quite well and ask question like >>what RIPE NCC does with all the money they get. >>I think such 30 mins presentation >>would help to clear those questions. >> >>o ENUM >> >>It looks quite trendy when IXs mention they do >>support ENUM. I do not know exactly >>what kind of works involve from IXs, but it would be worth to coordinate the >>ENUM work (which Katie is doing) with those guys. >> >>o IRR Power Toolset >> >>This is a similar tool like IRR toolset. >>Richard Steenbergen gave a presentation >>about it. The reason he implemented this tool >>is the available one is not compiled >>any of OS(?). >> >>He said quite positive things about the job >>RIPE NCC is doing maintaining the >>Routing Registry and hoped some point in US >>they will have such a well maintained >>DB. >> >>Daved Reader (Zen) mentioned RIPE NCC is doing >>a good job giving Routing Registry >>courses that help people to understand why and >>how they maintain Routing Registry DB. >> >>o IP TV panel >> >>There were panelists from IX points to discuss >>the future of IP TV situations. >>With the available bandwith and architecture >>IXs are not ready to handle such a >>big traffic. Some English attendees brought about BBC and it's IP TV effort. >> >>o BGPlay >> >>It's the most popular RIS tool. I do not think >>it's new. I heard postive feedbacks >>about it again. >> >>o RIS services >> >>Some ideas and suggestions about RIS services: >> >>- A suggestion came to add a telnet interface on RRC boxes >>- RIS does not give the view in US, we should find a way to improve it. >>- Configure a peering session from RouteView (not a bad idea) >>- Companies are looking for some criteria like >>ASpath length to adjust their filters >>at IX points. Especially, US ones since they do >>not have RR DB in ARIN area. I do >>not know how RIS can be useful in such effort. >> >>AOB >> >>o KIX (Korean Internet Exchange point) is biggest IX point, traffic vice. >>o AMS-IX is the biggest IX point, number of members, heading ahead LINX >>o LINX or LINX members are not so keen on PeeringForum, they did not >>sponsor it this year. There was not any LINX >>employee tt Peering Forum this year. >>o Jay Adelson (founder) left Equnix. He is a >>spokesman for Equnix for a while. >>He has his own compnay, digg.com. >>o There is a new content provider in the market >>like Akamai, Limelight. They are >>growing quite fast. They are happy to donate free transit to K-anycast. >>o AMS-IX and France Telecom are the only one >>who provides 10G ports. The other >>IXs are putting some effort to provide 10G ports, as well. >> >>Regards, >>Arife Vural > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >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 >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >1160438400. 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