"AS-set stuffing" experiments using RIS beacons

[Apologies for duplicate emails]

Dear colleagues,

In the next few days, the beacon prefixes 84.205.73.0/24 and
84.205.89.0/24 will be used by researchers at the Computer Networks
research group at Roma Tre University, in collaboration with the RIPE
NCC New Projects Group, to perform studies on network topology discovery.

The objective of the experiments is to investigate new methodologies for
topology discovery and experimental mechanisms for deducing the routing
policies of ISP's, the quality of their connectivity, and more general
properties of interdomain topology.

The experiments will involve announcing AS-sets of varying lengths
behind AS 12654 and are initially scheduled for the last week of
February and the first week of March.

For further information, or for questions and comments, please contact 
compunet at dia.uniroma3.it or lorenzo at ripe.net.

On behalf of the Roma Tre Computer Networks research group and the RIPE
NCC New Projects group.


Regards,
Lorenzo Colitti