[ris-int] Tools using the RIS

At 04:56 25/10/2005, Rene Wilhelm wrote:

> > Arife and I just sat through a bof on BGP analysis where a few tools
> > using RIS and/or RV data were presented.  I've no idea how useful those
> > tools actually are but if they are only presented at NANOG, I doubt that
> > many people in the RIPE region will hear that tehy are available, let
> > alone test drive them.
>
>
> > Random idea: shouldn't we make a page on the ris website with links
> > to all the tools that we know of.
>
>That's one thing, but what I think the RIPE community (operators) would
>really like is for the RIS service to be expanded with tools we consider best,
>as was done with BGPlay. Operators don't have time to investigate the
>work done by researchers in various universities, they need hands on
>tools working on the full set of RIS data.

In principle I agree, but I do see two problems here:

* We're not operators, so it will be hard for us to judge if a tool
   is valuable or not.  And I certainly don't want to label tools
   as "not useful".

* If we support a tool, then we should be fairly certain that it will
   exist for a while.  I.e. it is not a student's project where the student
   has gone on, that suddenly disappears or is not supported.  For
   BGPlay we did check that the Rome group would continue to develop it.

So, I think we should be neutral here and just list what is available.

However, when we insert a link, we can always ask the authors to post
to the lists, introduce the tool and ask for feedback.  If there is a
good product, people will pick it up.

Henk


>With the large number of peers RIS has now, any query via the RIS cgis
>yields an overwhelming amount of data. RIS could sure do with some
>intermediate, higher level, overview of the results.
>
>BGPinspect e.g. starts with a nice summary (graphical and in text)
>before listing the raw results. (http://bgpinspect.merit.edu/)
>
>-- Rene
>
>
>

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