ANNOUNCEMENT: RIPE NCC's New Projects Proudly Presents New RIS Features

["Matthew Williams" <]

[Apologies for duplicate emails]

Dear All,

RIPE NCC are pleased to announce the following RIS features:
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* New Plots added to the RISreport 

The RISreport creates plots on a daily basis by using data from the RIS
database. The new plots are generated per RRC and for the RIS as a
whole:

	1. AS number distribution
		-Origin-only ASes: 
		 ASes only seen to the right of AS paths
		-Transit ASes:
		 ASes not seen exclusively to right of AS paths
		-Private:
		 ASes designated for private use (64512 - 65534)
		-Other:
		 ASes in ranges held or reserved by IANA or designated
for experimental use

	2. Average AS path length
		-Mean
		-Standard Deviation
		-Ratio (Mean/Standard Deviation)

	3. Distribution of AS path length

URL: http://www.ris.ripe.net/risreport/  
(Click on "Totals" for each RRC or "All RRC boxes" at the bottom of the
page)

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* "RIS Martians"

We provide now daily lists of Martians seen by RIS. We use the prefixes
listed in Bill Manning's Internet Draft: "Documenting Special Use IPv4
Address Blocks that have been registered with IANA"
(http://www.isi.edu/~bmanning/dsua.html) for our definition of Martians.

URL: http://www.ris.ripe.net/martians/

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* "BGP Traffic Hot Spots" by the RIS

These are daily lists of prefixes for which high BGP announcement or
withdrawal activity has been observed by our Remote Route Collectors
(RRC). We provide the lists per RRC and for the entire RIS. This is a
list you don't want to be on ;)

URL: http://www.ris.ripe.net/topten/

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* RIS Prefix Statistics

Monthly lists of the number of prefixes seen by each RRC and the entire
RIS. 

URL: http://www.ris.ripe.net/prefix-stat/

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* Addition to the RIS Help Pages: "BGP Cheat Sheet"

Current Sections:

	-The Community Attribute 
	-Brief Overview of BGP Routing Instability 
	-Route Flap Damping/Dampening 

Please send your comments and suggestions to ris@localhost. More topics
will be added later. 

URL: http://www.ripe.net/ris/bgpcheat.html

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For more information about the RIS: 
http://www.ripe.net/ris/


Best regards,

The RIS team:
James Aldridge, Daniel Karrenberg, 
Henk Uijterwaal, Arife Vural and Matthew Williams

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> Matthew Williams-Bywater (MW243-RIPE)
> Customer Liaison Engineer
> RIPE NCC (www.ripe.net)