RIPE RIS - what we collect, and what we will collect in the future

RIPE RIS has been collecting BGP data for more than 25 years. We maintain a
long-term archive, and that comes with its own challenges: the volume only grows,
and noisy or low-value data stays with us forever. In recent years, we have
therefore been quite selective about accepting new peering sessions. We now want
to reconsider that approach: collecting data from more peers, while keeping the
long-term volume manageable.

In this talk, I will recap the data RIS has been collecting and show some of the
results --- and artifacts --- we see in the archive, including noisy peers,
unstable sessions, and the growth of BGP attributes over time. I will then
present ideas for a new peering policy that would allow us to be more open to
new peers while keeping the resulting archival volume manageable.

We get a lot of input from researchers about RIS, but we also want to hear from
network operators: what data is useful to you, and what should we avoid
collecting? We would particularly like feedback on these ideas before turning
them into a new RIS peering policy, which we hope to publish later this year.