Thomas Holterbach
Thomas is post doctoral researcher at the University of Strasbourg, France. His work aims to enhance BGP measurements, operations and monitoring. In 2023, he was a MANRS Ambassador.
Session
The public data shared by BGP route collection platforms such as RIPE RIS, RouteViews, and bgproutes.io is essential for our community to monitor the global Internet.
These platforms establish BGP sessions with operational routers, collect the advertised routes, and store them in public databases accessible to everyone. Beyond academic research, this data is extremely valuable for network operators. It powers the tools they rely on daily, such as BGP looking glasses, hijack detection systems, AS ranking services, and more.
In our lightning talk, we will present a new approach to gathering routing data using the BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP). We believe BMP is a potential game changer: While traditional collection platforms rely solely on BGP sessions, which only reveal the best routes from a single BGP router, BMP can provide much more. It enables the collection of routes from all peers of a monitored router and offers visibility into multiple stages of the BGP decision process (e.g., before and after applying filters).
We will introduce bgproutes.io, explain how BMP enables richer and more useful data collection, and show how operators can connect to the platform and contribute their data to the community via BMP.