This time on PING Doug Madory from Kentik discusses his recent measurements of the RPKI system worldwide, and it's visible impact on the stability and security of BGP.

Doug makes significant use of the Oregon RouteViews repository of BGP data, a collection maintained continuously at the University of Oregon for decades. It includes data from back to 1997, originally collected by the NLANR/MOAT project and has archives of BGP Routing Information Base (RIB) dumps taken every two hours from a variety of sources, and made available in both human-readable and machine readable binary formats.

This collection has become the de-facto standard for publicly available BGP state worldwide, along with the RIPE RIS collection. As Doug discusses, research papers which cite Oregon RouteViews data (over 1,000 are known of, but many more exist which have not registered their use of the data) invite serious appraisal because of the reproducibility of the research, and thus the testability of the conclusions drawn. It is a vehicle for higher quality science about the nature of the Internet through BGP.

Doug presented on RPKI and BGP, at the APOPS session held in February at APRICOT/APNIC57 Bangkok, Thailand