ANNOUNCEMENT: RIS IPv6 route collection

[James Aldridge <]

As a first step in tracking IPv6 BGP routing table activity, the RIPE Routing
Information Service (RIS) project will shortly be accepting native IPv6
peerings - initially only on our route collector rrc03 at the AMS-IX.  At this
stage we are not yet inserting the collected data in the RIS database (watch
this space for announcements of a full IPv6 RIS service) but the raw dumps of
the BGP RIB and BGP Updates containing IPv6 entries will be available at
http://data.ris.ripe.net/

If you are present at the AMS-IX and would like to establish IPv6 peering with
the RIS route collector then please send an email to rispeering@localhost.

If you are a current user of the raw RIS data then please be aware that these
files will soon contain IPv6 entries in addition to the existing IPv4 entries.
Programs which process this data may need to be modified to handle (or ignore)
this additional data (records in the dump file with types MSG_TABLE_DUMP or
MSG_PROTOCOL_BGP4MP and address family AFI_IP6).  The best source of
information on the format of the raw data files is probably the Zebra bgpd
source code - particularly the files bgpd/bgp_dump.c and bgpd/bgp_dump.h
(http://www.zebra.org/).  Some notes on the changes we made here can be found
at http://www.ris.ripe.net/ipv6changes.html

For more information on the RIS project, please visit the project's web site
at http://www.ripe.net/ris/

The RIPE NCC RIS Team
(James Aldridge, Daniel Karrenberg, Henk Uijterwaal, Arife Vural, 
Matthew Williams)