[ris-int] Re: BGPlay support discussion with U.Roma
Henk Uijterwaal henk at ripe.net
Wed Sep 20 10:54:40 CEST 2006
Andrei, Daniel, > > Thanks for this. How well is it supported and being developed now? Are > > there new versions available and do they have a release plan? Right now, they do support it but (AFAIK) there have been no recent bug reports or feature requests, hence no development or new versions. The mechanism (we ask, they send us a new binary) did work in the past. I did mention ideas that we have for BGPlay like ASN32, LISTEN, TTM+BGPlay and they were certainly interested in adding this on "short" notice. More general, this group is interested in network research with some practical applications. BGPlay (and T&M's IRR work) are examples. > > What are the licensing aspects of it? The current license is that they own the code. >I am very interested in extending > > the functionality ( for instance merging the BPlay with the TTM). We may > > need more flexibility in code development than just relying on Roma. > >We may. I suggest formalising the first part and worrying about the second >part when we are sure that we need it. Build a formal relationship in stages >and only take the it to the stage that is needed. My feeling is that they would be open to some model where we contribute more than just ask questions. How to formalize this, I don't know at this time. Henk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 + 381600 = 1160820000.
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