RIPEstat Quarterly Planning

We launched this initiative in Q2 2022, and we are open to improving what we publish here and how we do that. So let us know if there are ways we can better present our plans.

If you have any suggestions on how we can improve RIPEstat, you can share them through the RIPEstat Feature Tracker.

We will update this page as our activities progress and continue to share updates on RIPE Labs, on the RIPE NCC Membership Discussion and MAT Working Group (WG) mailing lists, and at RIPE Meetings and other events.

Q3 2026 Plans

Last updated: 11 June 2026

Item 1: Continuous UX/UI Improvements

The next visualisation we will update is routing history, which we know has high value to our internal and external users.

We will focus on rebuilding the other visualisations to use new technologies and refreshed look and feel. The recent publications on security issues have re-affirmed this choice. We need to update the legacy visualisations for long-term maintainability and to enable a security feature (content security policy) in RIPEstat.

Status: In progress

Item 2: Looking glass, AS names, and Communities

After initial work on the looking glass last year, we are adding further improvements. We have added AS names, and will add BGP community descriptions soon.

We will add a way for users to contribute to the quality of this data, starting with a feature to gather better names for networks. While we have the legal name available, (for example) the name in daily use differs. We also have heard a demand for data on which ASNs form one logical entity. We will use this data in RIPEstat and to improve https://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/asnames/asn.txt.

Community Input on Planning

We want the community to contribute to our plans and suggest additional work items. Please share your comments with us on the RIPE NCC Membership Discussion and MAT WG mailing lists. We'll also monitor all the other channels where people talk about these services.

We also invite you to participate in our user research to help us with the development and improvement of the tools and services.

Archived Quarterly Plans

You can find our plans from the previous quarters on this page. The Q3 2026 plans will be archived once we publish the Q4 2026 planning.