[ncc-services-wg] The IP Analyser: streamlining your IP address management

Dear colleagues,

I'm very happy to announce that today we are launching the IP Analyser as a production service. This LIR Portal application is aimed at simplifying and streamlining your IP address management. It allows members to get the following:

- An overview of all your allocations and assignments
- An overview of available free space in your allocations
- An overview of all invalid assignments that require your attention

For LIRs, this application serves as a replacement for the well-known asused tool, which has been used to verify a registry's usage data for many years. The IP Analyser offers several key advantages:

- Both public and private information about your registry is fetched in real-time and displayed in a user-friendly web application
- You no longer have to contact Registration Services if you would like to have an overview of your invalid assignments
- The application can suggest free space for your customer assignments with conservation in mind

In addition, we offer an API that allows you to fetch all IP Analyser data in JSON format, as well as a plain text report that uses the asused format. The IP Analyser API opens up a world of new scripting options and integration in IP address management solutions while retaining support for existing scripts. Several IP address management solution providers have committed to integrating support for the IP Analyser and My Resources APIs.

In this release, we only implement full IPv4 support. This means that the IP Analyser will not offer IPv6 functionality for the time being. Work on integrating IPv6 functionality and other features will continue in 2013.

In the meantime, we are eager to hear which features you would like to see in the user interface and API so we can continue to improve this service.

The IP Analyser is available at:
https://lirportal.ripe.net/ipanalyser/  (requires member login)

Documentation on the IP Analyser API and many other services can be found at:
https://ripe.net/developers

Kind regards,

Alex Band
Product Manager
RIPE NCC