inter-domain routing (BGP) data not much instrumentation/diagnostics/data sources UO's www.route-views RIPE's www.ripe.net/ris Merit's IPMA /www.merit.edu/ipma really need real-time instrumentation (w/o impacting forwarding performance) ideal: route-lookups in real-time w/o kernel need data for realistic inter-domain routing models identification/vis of flaps, outages, critical pts correlation of perf. w/some measure of path `length' comparison of forward path with BGP path shortest path reverse path