Jacques,
I understand what you want and I do not think it is all that difficult to do. I would implement this by doing regular expression matching on the AS Path, that way you can for instance select the originating as by saying something like '3333$'. Also this would keep working should we decide to include other BGP attributes in the output represented by text strings.
In order to conclude this discussion: we understand what you want and will implement this. However, at the moment we lack the manpower to actually do the work, this will change after the summer when a second person will start to work on the RIS. We have put this on his to-do list, if there are any details to be sorted out, we'll get back to you then. Cheers, Henk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Henk Uijterwaal Email: henk.uijterwaal@ripe.net RIPE Network Coordination Centre WWW: http://www.ripe.net/home/henk Singel 258 Phone: +31.20.535-4414, Fax -4445 1016 AB Amsterdam Home: +31.20.4195305 The Netherlands Mobile: +31.6.55861746 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A man can take a train and never reach his destination. (Kerouac, well before RFC2780).