RIS 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.

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

Q3 2025 Plans

Last updated: 24 June 2025

Item 1: Improve documentation of data artifacts

We have resolved a data inconsistency issue in RIS where data from a single removed IPv6 peer continued to appear in datasets. We will publicly document this, and other (less significant) data artifacts to help researchers. We will crowdsource this documentation.

Status: In progress

Item 2: Improvements to Route Collector Infrastructure

We are working on improvements to our route collectors. This includes both an operating system update, as well as experiments with a lightweight collector that can collect BGP data without multihop peering.

Status: In progress

Item 3: RIS/RIPEstat data processing migration

Over the past few years, we have been working on a financially sustainable solution to store Internet Measurement historical data. As part of these efforts, we will be looking at more cost efficient alternatives to store big data related to RIPEstat.

We follow a two-pronged approach. First of all, we need to migrate our hadoop environment again due to a committed reduction in data centre space. Second, we are investigating alternative storage architectures. Our investigation focuses on reducing our dependency on HBase and our current in-memory database, implicitly reducing our dependency on Hadoop, and evaluating more efficient alternatives.

Status: In progress

Community Input on Planning

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

When we receive feedback that can significantly impact our planning or that needs a further response, we will add it to the table below.

Archived Quarterly Plans

You can find our plans from the previous quarters on this page. The Q3 2025 plans will be archived once we publish the Q4 2025 planning.