Archived Plans
You can find our plans from previous quarters, along with requests from the community, on this page. We are updating this page at the end of each quarter.
2025 Plans and Community Input
Item 2: Monitoring data volume
Some events at RIS peers cause a high data volume that affects data collection. We are adding monitoring that allows us to intervene before this affects processing delays.
Status: On hold due to limited capacity and shifting priorities
2024 Plans and Community Input
Item 1: “External data distribution via kafka” in production
Following the feedback from the external testers, we will define a process to get direct access to kafka. Access will be limited to certain organisations that meet specific criteria.
We are now working with our legal team to define processes.
Status: This project has been deprioritised as we review the RIS vision and strategy.
Item 2: Open source RIS Live
By releasing the RIS Live code as open source, it will be possible for instances of the service to run on infrastructure outside the RIPE NCC. Having a full working instance will require access to the "Public kafka" solution.
Status: This project has been deprioritised as we review the RIS vision and strategy.
Item 3: RIS beacons revamped
We plan to modernise the RIS beaconing so it better captures important features of the current Internet.
You can find the exact timeline on this announcement and more information about our plans on RIPE Labs.
Status: Completed in Q2 2024.
Item 4: 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: Continues in 2025.
2023 Plans and Community Input
Item 1: Improved timeliness of RIS dump files
We replaced the pipeline that generates MRT dump files that are publicly available from the RIPE NCC. The new pipeline has significantly less delay and some changes to the structure of the MRT file format.
Completed in Q2 2023.
2022 Plans and Community Input
Item 1: Documentation updates on the website
We have updated the content on the RIS homepage and added a new documentation site.
Completed in Q2 2022.
Item 2: Announce new prototypes
We developed the following new prototypes and are collecting feedback on their usefulness:
- Per peer dump files
- Per-RRC BGP dump files
- Peer metadata files
Completed in Q4 2022.
Item 3: Test public kafka protype
We tested with a few volunteers from the community to see if providing kafka as an additional data access model would benefit them.
Completed in Q4 2022.
Item 4: Performance metrics
We started publishing RIS performance metrics on our website. We recorded this request with reference RS-2022-#01.
We published an article on RIPE Labs to explain the changes.
Completed in Q4 2022.
Item 5: RIS Live performance improvements
We made architecture changes to RIS Live to allow for a more predictable latency. Further improvements will follow from using new kafka topics.
Completed in Q4 2022.