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“Research Packet Clearing House investigates technological, economic, and policy issues in areas related to Internet traffic exchange.

“PCH’s longest-running research project is the Internet Routing Topology Archive, a database of Internet topology measurements begun in 1997. This archive of routing data from all major and many minor Internet provider networks is available to academic and commercial researchers and the operations community, to aid in the understanding of the dynamic nature and topology of the Internet.

“Other topics of ongoing research include the economic impact of local traffic exchange in developing nations, inter-provider notifications and communication, and database schemas for topological data.

“Packet Clearing House facilitates research, instruments the Internet, collects, archives, and disseminates information and data, and creates a climate conducive to analytical examination of all aspects of Internet topology, operational practice, and economics. Although we have collected and maintain the world’s largest database of Internet routing information, we prefer to put researchers in academia together with the data that they need, rather than analyze all the data we collect ourselves - a task beyond the capacity of any one organization. We believe that, by facilitating partnerships between industry and academia and enabling communication between the two communities, we can achieve a more enduring beneficial effect.”

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“The RIPE Routing Information Service (RIS) is a RIPE NCC service. With the help of network operators all over the world, RIS employs a globally distributed set of Remote Route Collectors (RRCs), typically located at Internet Exchange Points, to collect and store Internet routing data. Volunteers peer with the RRCs using the BGP protocol and RIS stores the update and withdraw messages. RIS data can be accessed via:

• RIPEstat, the “one-stop shop” for all available information about Internet number resources. RIPEstat uses individual widgets to display routing and other information;
• RIS Live, a real time BGP streaming API allowing server-side filtering of BGP messages by prefix or autonomous system;
• RIS Raw Data, available for each route collector, with state dumps and batches of updates made available periodically;
• RISwhois, that searches the latest RIS data for details of an IP address using a plaintext “whois”-style interface. It is useful when querying RIS data using scripts.”

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“The University’s RouteViews project was initially conceived as a tool for Internet operators to obtain real-time information about the global routing system from the perspectives of several different backbones and locations around the Internet. Although other tools handle related tasks, such as the various Looking Glass Collections (see e.g., TRACEROUTE.ORG), they typically either provide only a constrained view of the routing system (e.g., either a single provider or the route server) or they do not provide real-time access to routing data.

“While the RouteViews project was initially motivated by interest on the part of operators in determining how the global routing system viewed their prefixes and/or AS space, there have been many other interesting uses of this RouteViews data. For example, NLANR has used RouteViews data for AS path visualization and to study IPv4 address space utilization (archive). Others have used RouteViews data to map IP addresses to origin AS for various topological studies. CAIDA has used it in conjunction with the NetGeo database in generating geographic locations for hosts, functionality that both CoralReef and the Skitter project support.”

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