[ris-int] Re: BGPlay support discussion with U.Roma

Hi Henk,

Henk Uijterwaal wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Mainly FYI.  I spoke to Pino Batista last week @ SIGCOMM.  He is Lorenzo's
> old boss in Rome and head of the department that wrote BGPlay.  Amongst
> other things, we discussed long term support for BGPlay, both regular
> maintenance and adding new features (like ASN32 support, showing delays,
> better integration with other tools).  They are very happy that the
> tool is being used and are definitely interested in adding new features
> based on user feedback.  The model we have in mind, is something like:
> 
>   a. Rome will continue to work on this and provide binaries.
>   b. The NCC will have a contact.  This contact person will install
>      the binaries, run tests and give feedback.
>   c. The person from Rome visits us once or twice a year, for issues
>      that cannot be dealt with by email and to discuss new features.
>   d. We'll send some euros to support (a) and (c).
> 
> This sounded reasonable to me in first order.  He'll put something more
> detailed on paper in the next week or so.
> 

Thanks for this. How well is it supported and being developed now? Are
there new versions available and do they have a release plan?

What are the licensing aspects of it? 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.

> Henk
> 


Andrei
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