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Comments on RIPEstat
by Richard L. Barnes 24 Feb '11

24 Feb '11

Just wanted to start a thread on this list where people could contribute thoughts about RIPEstat. To get things started, here are a few things that occurred to me during the call this morning: -- Time zooming is awesome. I haven't yet looked to see if this zooms the linked raw data as well; if it doesn't it should. -- YAML might not be everyone's preferred format for data. It might be nice for the "raw data" link to go to a page that displays the data (e.g., as a table) with links at the top: "Download as: YAML, CSV, JSON, XML, ..." -- The AJAX loading is good, but there's no "busy indicator" that tells me that the request is outstanding, vs. the blocks simply not loading. -- The idea of country indexes (http://stat.ripe.net/country/dk) seems like it could be handy and not too difficult to implement. It would probably be accurate enough to get the geolocation from the delegation files and call up information for those resources. -- +1 on the addition of a methodology link. Again, would be useful, especially for first-time or occasional users, and not too hard to implement (just some static text). Stylistically speaking, it's probably a small enough bit of text that it could be done as an AJAX popup/overlay. Thanks for keeping the community involved in this project, --Richard

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Next RIPEstat live demo on 22 February 2011
by Mirjam Kuehne 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

Dear colleagues, The next RIPEstat Live Demo is scheduled for Tuesday,22 February 2011 at 10:30-11:00 UTC. I hope you will join us. Please find details on how to join the demo session on RIPE Labs: http://labs.ripe.net/Members/mirjam/ripestat-live-demo-2 The minutes of the last session have been published here: http://labs.ripe.net/Members/mirjam/ripestat-live-demo-1 Kind Regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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How much traffic goes to unallocated address space?
by Mirjam Kuehne 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

[apologies for duplicates] Dear colleagues, How much and what kind of traffic is going to unallocated address space? See an analysis of 5/8 and 37/8 done by Merit on RIPE Labs: http://labs.ripe.net/Members/mkarir/first-impressions-of-pollution-in-two-r… Kind Regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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Three Case Studies on the Egyptian Disconnection
by Mirjam Kuehne 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

[apologies for duplicates] Dear colleagues, Claudio Squarcella from Roma Tre University presents three analyses related to the recent events in Egypt, proving interesting behavior in relation to the observed disconnection. He used tools like BGPlay and iBGPlay, developed for the visualisation of BGP dynamics. See his findings on RIPE Labs: http://labs.ripe.net/Members/csquarce/three-case-studies-egyptian-disconnec… Kind Regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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IPFIX Interoperability Event, Prague, March 24-25, 2011
by Brian Trammell 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

Greetings, all, The FP7 DEMONS (http://www.fp7-demons.eu) project is organizing an IPFIX Interoperability Event the Thursday and Friday before IETF 80 in Prague, on March 24-25, in cooperation with CESNET (http://www.ces.net). The aim of the event is to test interoperability among developers and vendors of IPFIX Devices, focusing on the core protocol. The results of this event will be used to advance IPFIX down the IETF Standards Track. The event will take place at the offices of CESNET, Zikova 4, 160 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic. Details are available at http://fp7-demons.eu/?p=164 ... please feel free to forward this link to anyone who may be interested. Best regards, Brian Trammell (Organizer) -- trammell(a)tik.ee.ethz.ch

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RIPE Labs - Scheduled Maintenance - Tuesday, 8 February
by Mirjam Kuehne 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

[Apologies for duplicate messages] Dear Colleagues, To allow us to update the software behind RIPE Labs, functionality on the site will be reduced between 15:00 and 18:00 UTC on Tuesday, 8 February 2011. During this time, although the site remains available, it will be in "read only" mode. It will not be possible to comment on articles or join in discussions. We apologise in advance for any inconvenience. If you have any questions about this maintenance work, please send an email to <labs(a)ripe.net>. Kind Regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC http://labs.ripe.net

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Another view of Egypt falling off the net
by John S. Quarterman 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

This view shows paths to six selected nodes inside Egypt, before and during the disconnection: https://www.internetperils.com/perilwatch/20110127.php The timing matches what RIPE saw, and the order matches what Renesys saw. This view is not based on BGP routes; it is derived from regular probes (every 15 minutes) showing hops along the way, and thus shows detail of paths from several cameras outside Egypt to the selected destinations. None of those destinations have reappeared yet. -jsq

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Live Egyptian Internet Incident Analysis
by Mirjam Kuehne 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

Dear colleagues, We did some analysis of the situation in Egypt using the RIPEstat toolbox: http://labs.ripe.net/Members/akvadrako/live_eqyptian_internet_incident_anal… Kind Regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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Visualizing the Egyptian disconnection
by Richard L. Barnes 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

Hey all, Looking to find some more different ways of looking at the current events in Egypt, I thought the routing graphs that the RIPE REX tool produces could be instructive. I've collated the relevant graphs with some notes on what they show in a brief RIPE Labs article: <https://labs.ripe.net/Members/rbarnes/visualizing-the-egyptian-disconnection> Best, --Richard

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Report of first RIPEstat public demo session
by Mirjam Kuehne 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

Dear colleagues, For those of you who could not attend the first public RIPEstat demo session earlier today, the report is now available on RIPE Labs: http://labs.ripe.net/Members/mirjam/ripestat-live-demo-1 You will also find links to the archived demo session. All future RIPEstat related developments including summaries of the demo sessions will be here: http://labs.ripe.net/ripestat Kind Regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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Comments on RIPEstat
by Richard L. Barnes 25 Jan '11

25 Jan '11

Hey all, As Mirjam announced a few days ago, RIPE NCC debuted their RIPEstat toolbox this morning: <http://stat.ripe.net/> RIPEstat is naturally in a very early state of development, and community feedback is going to be critical for figuring out how it matures, what new features get added, etc. So I thought I would start a thread where people could post any comments they have on the RIPEstat beta. To start, here are my comments: -- Overall, I think the tool is pretty well designed. The interface is very simple, and the results clearly presented. I like that different types of results are displayed in content-appropriate formats (table vs. pie-chart vs. bar-graph). -- The purely text-based interface might be -- I would appreciate it if the sources of metrics could be more clearly identified. For example, it's a little hard to interpret BGP data if you don't know where it's being collected. The "methodology" links on REX did a good job of explaining this sort of thing, so maybe they could be ported over to the new tool? -- In a similar vein, I notice that the time span for things like the stability graphs is fixed. Would be nice to have it adjustable, like in REX. -- It would be really cool if I could download the underlying data whenever there's a chart presented. Seems like that these little micro-data-sets could be cached along with the rest of the results. What does everyone else think? Best, --Richard

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Public demo sessions to develop RIPEstat Toolbox
by Mirjam Kuehne 20 Jan '11

20 Jan '11

[apologies for duplicates] Dear colleagues, The RIPE NCC is working on a toolbox, called RIPEstat, that will make it easier to access the various datasets maintained by the RIPE NCC. This toolbox will be developed in close cooperation with the community. We have scheduled a series of public demo sessions. The first one will take place next week Tuesday. Please find more details on RIPE Labs: http://labs.ripe.net/Members/dfk/ripestat-the-ripe-ncc-information-toolbox Kind Regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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The RIPE NCC's involvement in the World IPv6 Day
by Mirjam Kuehne 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

[apologies for duplicates] Dear colleagues, We received some questions about the RIPE NCC's involvement in the World IPv6 Day that is planned for 8 June 2011. Please see some ideas and suggestions on RIPE Labs: http://labs.ripe.net/Members/mirjam/ripe-ncc-and-world-ipv6-day We are looking for feedback and suggestions, especially from subscribers of this working mailing list. Kind Regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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RIPE Atlas Probes - Lottery Drawing
by Mirjam Kuehne 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

Dear colleagues, As announced during RIPE 61, we did a lottery drawing among the users that had an RIPE Atlas probe up in December 2010. If you want to know how we did it and (more importantly) if you won, you can find out on RIPE Labs: http://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/ripe-atlas-ipad-lottery Kind Regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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RIPE NCC Demo Dates
by Daniel Karrenberg 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

Good morning, and a happy, healthy and prosperous 2011 to all of you! In 2011 we plan to develop RIPE NCC information services a little more interactively than before. We will solicit feedback from you actively and we want you to try our new services early, so we can develop what you like and discard what noone uses. To this end we will be holding public demo sessions once a month at 1130-1200 Amsterdam and on these dates: Tuesday 25th January Tuesday 22nd February Tuesday 22nd March Tuesday 19th April Tuesday 18th May Tuesday 14th June Tuesday 12th July Tuesday 9th August Tuesday 6th September Tuesday 4th October Tuesday 1st November (NB: During RIPE63) Tuesday 29th November Tuesday 27th December (tentative...) Save those in your calendar. We will be using Webex for these demos (ripencc.webex.com) and publish short summaries on RIPE Labs for those who cannot attend. We will also publish recordings of the demos with these notes. During the first demo I will give a short overview of our plans for this year. See you then Daniel

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Additional Layers for Economic Incentives to improve Internet Security
by Mirjam Kuehne 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

[apologies for duplicates] Dear colleagues, In case you have not seen this yet: Following up from his earlier posts on RIPE Labs, John Quarterman is now looking at 'ASN Ranking Correlations Between Spam Blocklists': http://labs.ripe.net/Members/jsq/asn-ranking-correlations-between-spam-bloc… Kind Regards and Happy Holidays, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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RIPE Atlas probes now on Five Continents
by Mirjam Kuehne 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

Dear colleagues, RIPE Atlas probes are now active on five continents. After the big run on the measurement probes during the RIPE Meeting in Rome, the deployment is a little slower than expected; but there is a steady stream of probes coming online. Probe hosts can win an iPad by keeping their probes up during December! Read more on RIPE Labs: http://labs.ripe.net/Members/dfk/ripe-atlas-now-on-five-continents Kind Regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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New DNSMON beta user interface
by Mirjam Kuehne 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

[apologies for duplicates] Dear colleagues, A new DNSMON beta user interface has been published. Please find a description of the enhancements on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/markd/dnsmon-new-user-interface-update Kind Regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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Final draft agenda for the MAT-WG session at RIPE61
by Ian Meikle 08 Nov '10

08 Nov '10

Dear Working Group colleagues, Below is the agenda for the MAT-WG session at RIPE61. This session will run between 1600 - 1730 CET on Thursday 18 November. The agenda is very crowded, which is a good thing, but it means we will be unable to add to it prior to the session. A. Administrivia Welcome, Scribe, Jabber, Microphone etiquette, Agenda B. Traffic Identification Engine Alberto Dainotti, University of Naples C. Neustar Anycast Statistics Ed Lewis, Neustar D. IPv6 Network Measurement Owen DeLong, Hurricane Electric E. Information Systems Update Sean McEvoy, RIPE NCC F. Visualizing geolocated Internet measurements Claudio Squarcella, CAIDA G. Atlas Technical Details Robert Kisteleski, RIPE NCC H. Measurement Framework Proposal and Discussion Daniel Karrenberg, RIPE NCC and the WG Co-Chairs Z. AOB Regards, Ian Meikle, Richard Barnes, Christian Kaufmann

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Test, please ignore
by Richard L. Barnes 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Please ignore.

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Thoughts on the Internet Measurement Ecosystem
by Richard L. Barnes 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Dear MAT WG list, I'm writing to share with you some thoughts that Ian, Christian, and I have been discussing, about how to expand the RIPE TTM network, better integrate it with other measurement systems around the world, and generally knit the Internet measurement ecosystem into a more cohesive whole. We're planning to have some discussion on these topics at the upcoming RIPE meeting in Rome, but we wanted to throw this out to the list to give people an introduction and hopefully spark some early discussions. The network measurement landscape right now is a series of stove- pipes. RIPE has a measurement network; CAIDA, PlanetLab, and their academic peers have a few different networks; and commercial entities like Akamai, Google, and Skype all collect measurements of the network infrastructure as part of measuring their own products. Each of these entities collects its own measurements, does its own analysis, and publishes its own results, independent of other measurements going on in the network. The result of this situation is that Internet measurement systems don't measure the Internet all that well. The Internet is a huge, diverse place, and each stove-pipe covers only a slice of it. Measurements on PlanetLab cover academic networks pretty well, but not home broadband networks. Web measurements from Akamai tells us a lot about the web, but little about VoIP or other real-time applications. Analytics aren't comparable because they're compared on the basis of completely separate data. So the question arises: How can we as a community work together to create a global network measurement ecosystem that facilitates near- real-time network analytics based on observations from points distributed over a large, diverse portion of the infrastructure? One could imagine a few possible realizations of this concept, for example: 1. A system for federating measurement systems, allowing them to share measurements in large volumes and in near-real-time. 2. Individual measurement systems and consumers of measurements could join together in something like the DNS OARC, under a common sharing agreement. 3. A central clearing-house for measurements, where some entities throw measurements in, and other entities get notifications when measurements of interest arrive. (I think of these three examples as analogies to private interconnects, peering points, and route servers, respectively.) There are bound to be several other paths with different trade-offs, and we welcome suggestions. There are clearly several interesting problems to solve in the development of this framework. In addition to the raw technical questions of how much data can be collected and distributed, there are thorny issues around how to incentivize participation, and how to protect the privacy of end users and the anonymity of contributors. We have some hope that these issues are surmountable, and looks forward to discussions on the list and in Rome. One final note: This discussion is closely related to the work that the RIPE NCC has been doing to expand their measurement network, e.g., through the RIPE ATLAS project: <http://labs.ripe.net/Members/dfk/active-measurements-need-more-vantage-poin… > What we're going after here is more general, looking at how projects like RIPE ATLAS and the traditional RIPE TTM could integrate more globally. Thanks for taking the time to read this, and please provide feedback. Even a simple "Yes, this is great", or "No, go away" would help us gauge whether there's any interest in the community. Sincerely, MAT WG chairs Christian Kaufmann Ian Meikle Richard Barnes

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Active Measurements (RIPE Atlas) - Registration Open Now
by Mirjam Kuehne 22 Oct '10

22 Oct '10

[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear colleagues, The launch date of our new active measurements network, RIPE Atlas, is close. We already received a lot of interest and offers to host such a probe. Registration is now open! In this new RIPE Labs article, we explain some more details about how to participate in this effort: http://labs.ripe.net/Members/kistel/ripe-atlas-pre-registration-is-now-open For more information, please refer to earlier articles on the same topic: 1. Active Measurements Need More Vantage Points https://labs.ripe.net/Members/dfk/active-measurements-need-more-vantage-poi… 2. Active Measurements - A Small Probe https://labs.ripe.net/Members/dfk/a-small-probe-for-active-measurements?sea… 3. Active Measurements - Hosting a Probe https://labs.ripe.net/Members/dfk/active_measurements/hosting-a-probe-for-a… 4. Wanted: Partners to Sponsor "RIPE Atlas" Effort http://labs.ripe.net/Members/dfk/active-measurements-sponsorship Kind Regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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DRAFT minutes from RIPE60
by Ian Meikle 22 Oct '10

22 Oct '10

Hi, Our working group was renamed in Prague, but the minutes are labelled using the previous name. The draft minutes from the Test Traffic Working Group at RIPE60 are available online: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/wg/tt/r60-minutes.html Please send any comments and/or amendments to the list to arrive no later than 12:00 UTC on Monday 15 November. We hope to declare these minutes final during the working group session on Thursday afternoon. Thanks to Rene for taking the minutes and to the rest of the NCC staff for their support in organising the session. Regards, Ian

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RIPE61 - Call for Agenda Items
by Ian Meikle 13 Oct '10

13 Oct '10

Dear WG colleagues, RIPE61 will be held in Rome 15-19 November ( http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-61/). The MAT WG session will be at 16:00 on Thursday 18 November. My co-chairs and I invite you to submit presentations or suggestions for content you would like to see in this session. As a reminder, the working group charter states: The purpose of the working group is to provide a forum in which the RIPE NCC and the community can collaborate in the areas of data, tools and analysis relating to the Internet and its infrastructure, with a loose focus on monitoring, diagnosis, analysis and forecasting. It is not the purpose of the working group to compare the performance of networks for marketing purposes. If you would like to contribute anything to our session at the next RIPE meeting please email mat-wg-chairs(a)ripe.net. Best regards, Ian Meikle Co-chair MAT Working Group

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Active Measurements Network - Call for Sponsors
by Mirjam Kuehne 11 Oct '10

11 Oct '10

[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear colleagues, The next article in the Active Measurements series has been published on RIPE Labs: Wanted: Partners to Sponsor "RIPE Atlas" Effort http://labs.ripe.net/Members/dfk/active-measurements-sponsorship It describes sponsorship benefits, but also some more details about the measurement network, including a time line. Please also note the three related articles published earlier: - Active Measurements Need More Vantage Points https://labs.ripe.net/Members/dfk/active-measurements-need-more-vantage-poi… - Active Measurements - A Small Probe https://labs.ripe.net/Members/dfk/a-small-probe-for-active-measurements?sea… - Active Measurements - Hosting a Probe https://labs.ripe.net/Members/dfk/active_measurements/hosting-a-probe-for-a… Kind Regards, Mirjam Kuehne https://labs.ripe.net

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