A Future Tool Development Project Joachim Schmitz (JS395-RIPE)

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Requirements

• tool for RR and Internet routing
• precise project definition
• does it fit in with RIPE
• overlap with RIPE NCC activities?
• distinguish from other areas?
• tool to be used by "everybody" - or - results to be made available by RIPE NCC?

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RIPE NCC Activities and Expenditures 1997

• Registration
  • PI assignment
  • Address allocation to local IR
  • AS number assignment
• Coordination
  • RIPE database software
  • RIDE
  • RR maintenance
    • consistency
    • redundancy
    • gaps
    • errors
  • RR tools
• New Activities
  • Routing information service display exterior routing information from European Internet (near real time, history)
  • Test traffic measurement traffic test station software
    • connectivity
    • quality
    BOF held at RIPE 27

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RR Tools

• Overview
  • PRIDE
  • RATools
  • rps WG
• PRIDE Tools
  • prtraceroute
  • prcheck
  • prpath
  • not implemented: prconfig, prconn
• RATools
  • RtConfig
  • roe
  • aoe
  • prtraceroute, prcheck, prpath
  • peval
  • CIDR advisor
  • pmatch
  • IRRv
  • Rsd

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I n t e r n e t +-------------------+ | routers | . . . . . . . . . . . . . + +----------------------> |life configuration| <----------------------+ . | +-------------------+ | . | | | . | monitoring | RtConfig | . | and setup | | . | v | . | | | . v /| v v +-------+ / | aoe, roe +-------+ | | <-----------------+--|------------------------------------> | | | | / | | | | / | | | I S P | <-----------------+---------------------------------------- | I R R | | | pmatch, prtraceroute, IRRv | | | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > | | | | prpath, prcheck, peval, CIDR advisor | | | | <---------------------------------------------------------- | | +-------+ whois, wais, web +-------+ | ^ | | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ mail ------> unidirectional relation <-----> bidirectional relation . . . > possible relation

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The following dicussion during the Routing WG session at RIPE27 showed that important tools already exist or are currently developed by other parties. It was generally felt that there is no immediate need for a RIPE tool development project. However, this area should be regularly reviewed (see Routing WG minutes).

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