[apnic-talk] AP routing table analysis

To: apops at whois dot apnic dot net
Subject: [apnic-talk] AP routing table analysis
From: Philip Smith <pfs at cisco dot com>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 15:01:42 +1000
Cc: bgp-stats at whois dot apnic dot net
Sender: owner-apnic-talk@lists.apnic.net

Hello Everyone,

As has been presented at the last two IEPG meetings I have been doing some 
work with APNIC which involves analysing the Internet Routing table as seen 
on the APNIC routers.

The project has been running informally since March of this year, and I now 
feel it is an appropriate time to widen the audience who are aware of this 
work, and to make you aware of some of the initial results.

APNIC receive the full Internet routing table at their NSPIXP2 location in 
Japan. The analysis work basically takes a daily snapshot of this full 
routing table at 4am GMT+10 hours and then separates out the announcements 
according to several programmed criteria. These criteria include 
information such as the number of prefixes and ASes which are being used in 
this region from APNIC allocatable space.

The daily statistics are available on the APNIC web site, at the URL:

         http://www.apnic.net/stats/bgp

both in graphical and textual format.

The daily text is also sent by e-mail to the bgp-stats at lists dot apnic dot net 
mailing list. To subscribe to the list, please send e-mail to 
majordomo at lists dot apnic dot net, and put the words "subscribe bgp-stats" in the 
body of the mail message.

I plan to start posting a weekly message to the apops at lists dot apnic dot net 
mailing list. If you are not on this list (which is the Asia Pacific 
Operations list, equivalent to the North American NANOG list, or European 
EOF list), you can subscribe through the APNIC majordomo system as 
referenced above ("subscribe apops"), or view the archive referenced from 
the APNIC web pages.

All feedback and comments are welcome. With APNIC's help I am working on 
the next phase of the analysis system which includes more information and 
better graphical presentation.

Acknowledgements: Thanks are due to APNIC for allowing me access to their 
equipment to run this project, and for their support. Thanks especially are 
due to Bruce Campbell for building and maintaining the web pages.

Best wishes!

philip
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Philip Smith                         ph: +61 7 3238 8200
Consulting Engineering, Office of the CTO, Cisco Systems
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