[127435] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Country Level BGP Data
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Mon Jun 28 22:11:33 2010
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
In-Reply-To: <C0A98BB6DAFAAB46A78BBA2C51B98F3E01672AA4@nexus.nexicomgroup.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:06:06 -0700
To: Paul Stewart <pstewart@nexicomgroup.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 28, 2010, at 5:58 PM, Paul Stewart wrote:
> Does anyone know of BGP statistical data based on country? If I =
wanted
> to know "top 5 service providers in country XYZ based on number of BGP
> peers" for example, is there something that can tell me this
> information? I can manually run a list of AS numbers against tools =
like
> Renesys for example but someone has probably already done this?
PCH has this internally, but the AS-to-country mappings are pretty =
fluid, so we don't hand it out without a lot of caveats... Otherwise =
policymakers would take it way more seriously than it should be taken, =
since they love them some rankings.
If people generally think we should publish it every day, we'd be =
willing to, provided we think people are cognizant of the risks of =
policy folks misusing it. Or marketing folks. Or whatever.
Otherwise, email me or Gaurab or Jonny, and we'll set you up with a =
current listing for whatever countries you're interested in.
-Bill
