Presentation by Sofia Silva Berenguer at APRICOT 2018 on Monday, 26 February 2018.

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BGP Data Collection
in the AP region
Sofía Silva Berenguer – Internet Data Scientist (APNIC)
sofia@apnic.net
Creating better local maps

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Traffic in Kathmandu
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My commute to work J
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My commute to work J
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Traffic in Kathmandu
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Traffic in Nepal
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How good is your vision?
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Maybe we need glasses?
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Or just to open our eyes?
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We need better local “maps”!
• We will design and deploy a routing measurement platform in our
region.
– To have better local maps we need more local data
• What do my neighbours know about my network?
• What does my neighbourhood look like?
• Could I do better by connecting to new peers?
• Can I detect and troubleshoot routing issues faster?
– Sure you can!!
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Benefits
• To network operators
– BGP session status
– Routing table size
– Real time BGP messages
– Reachability of prefixes
– Alerts, etc.
• Globally
– Improved routing stability/robustness understanding
– Improved Internet topology understanding
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Security/Privacy Concern?
• Are you concerned to share routing data?
– You shouldn’t!
• It’s no secret that the streets in Kathmandu are quite busy,
is it?
• BGP data is public anyway
– You are sharing it with your neighbours, who in turn are sharing it
with their neighbours and so on and so forth.
• By sharing it with a data collector you are just making it
easier to have more and better points of view
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Concerns About Costs?
• Are you afraid this could increment your transit costs?
– No traffic will be sent through the BGP sessions established with us
– Just BGP messages
• Are you concerned about the effort/time you will have to
invest on this?
– Establishing the BGP session will just take a few minutes on your
side (see next slide J)
– No maintenance is required
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1st Nepalese feed!!
• In less than half an hour:
– A BGP session between Isolario and Websurfer was up and running
– Krishna and Sachindra had credentials to access Isolario Web Portal
and start playing with the tools
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Yet another BGP feed?
• Are you already participating in any BGP Data Collection project?
– RouteViews
– RIPE NCC’s RIS
– Packet Clearing House
– ??
• But!
– These are all independent efforts. No single view of the Internet as a whole.
– There are not that many collectors in the AP region
• So… we are also working on another project :)
– Collaborative Project to Integrate Collected BGP Data
• In collaboration with other BGP data collection projects
• Define a data format and technical solution to integrate the BGP data that is already available
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Wrapping up
• We’ve been trying to understand the AP region observing it from
far far away.
• We want to create better local maps of the Internet to be able to:
– Detect and troubleshoot issues faster
– Identify opportunities of better interconnection
– Understand better the Internet topology
• We need YOU to be on-board!
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Are you interested in participating?
• Let me know
• Give me your business card
• Let’s set up a BGP session
• And start creating better maps to see things in more detail!
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19 – 28 February 2018KATHMANDU, NEPAL
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