New prototype: per-peer dump files

Dear RIS users,

We would like to announce the release of a public prototype of a new
service, per-peer BGP dump files. These files are generated every hour and
exposed through a REST interface. 

We believe that having BGP dumps generated every hour provides better
insight into BGP than the eight-hourly dumps currently provided. Also, with
per-peer dumps, it is possible to choose just a subset of data that is now
available with per-RRC dumps, which could make the analysis of this data
faster. 

We have also fixed the format of the dump files, so it now conforms to the
RFC 6396 (Multi-Threaded Routing Toolkit (MRT) Routing Information Export
Format): we do not include MP_UNREACH_NLRI attribute of BGP updates in
a dump file, and we do not include announced prefix in MP_REACH_NLRI
attribute, as Section 4.3.4 of RFC 6396 describes. 

With these changes in the format of the files, we ask you to verify that
your MRT parsers could still parse these new files. The REST interface to
access per-peer dump files is available at:
https://www.ris.ripe.net/dumps-per-peer-rest/prototype/

Please take note of the word "prototype" in the URL: this is still
a prototype service. At this moment, we want to collect your feedback and
improve this service before moving it to "production". Please also do not
rely on this URL, as we intend to change it in the future.

The API of the interface should be self-explanatory: doing a GET request on
the above URL returns a list of links to the individual RRC's data,
arranged per hour, in JSON format. Fetching any of those links will return
a list of links to the dump files. 

Please share your feedback on this mailing list; we are looking forward to
your reactions! 

-- 
Oleg Muravskiy
RIPE NCC