2026-01-22 –, Hlavní místnost Language: English
The public data shared by BGP route collection platforms such as RIPE RIS and RouteViews is essential for our community. It enables operators and researchers to monitor the global Internet and powers many tools, including BGP hijack detectors and looking glasses.
In this talk, we will introduce bgproutes.io, a new BGP data collection platform, highlight how it differs from other collection platforms and explain how the community can use the data or the analytic dashboards. Then, we will explain the BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP), describe how it works, and share our early (but insightful) experience deploying BMP within bgproutes.io. We will show how BMP enables us to collect more data and raise the quality of the dataset available to the community.
BGP data-collection platforms establish BGP sessions with operational routers, gather the routes they advertise, and store them in public databases accessible to everyone. Beyond academic research, this data is extremely valuable for network operators: it powers many of the tools they rely on daily, including BGP looking glasses, hijack-detection systems, AS-ranking services, and more.
bgproutes.io is a new BGP route-collection platform that gathers routing data and makes it publicly available. In addition, it provides a set of public dashboards that help operators monitor Internet routing in a simple and actionable way.
Why did we decide to create a new BGP data-collection platform? How does it differ from RIPE RIS and RouteViews? How can it help both operators and researchers in their day-to-day work? And what are our next steps? These are the questions we aim to answer in this presentation.
A key focus of the talk will be on a feature we believe is both unique and useful: using the BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP) to collect routing data. While traditional collection platforms rely solely on BGP sessions—revealing only the best (and already filtered) routes from a single router—BMP offers much richer visibility. It allows us to collect routes from all peers of a monitored router and observe multiple stages of the BGP decision process (e.g., pre- and post-policy).
We will explain how BMP enables deeper, more comprehensive data collection, how operators can easily connect and contribute their data to the community via BMP, and how all this data can be used for inter-domain monitoring and analysis.
We look forward to engaging with the community to understand how operators perceive this new functionality, whether they find it useful, and how it can be improved. Using BMP to collect BGP data for inter-domain routing monitoring is still relatively new, and we are eager to learn how to apply it most effectively, thus any feedback will be very valuable.
