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Ongoing Datasets

Name	Status	Availability	Category	Source	Start Date
Telescope Daily RSDoS	Ongoing	Request access	Security	Telescope	2008-10
Complete Routed-Space DNS Lookups	Ongoing	Request access (download)	Topology	Root DNS Servers	2014-08
AS Links: IPv6 AS Links	Ongoing	Public	Topology	Ark + RouteViews	2008-12
RouteViews Prefix to AS mappings	Ongoing	Public (download)	Topology	RouteViews	2005-05
AS to Organization Mapping	Ongoing	Public	Topology	Whois	2009-10
AS Classification	Ongoing	Temporarily Unavailable	AS metadata	PeeringDB + Telescope + Alexa + AS Relationships	2018-11
Internet eXchange Points (IXPs) Dataset	Ongoing	Public	Interconnection	PeeringDB,Geoname,Hurricane Electric, PCH	2018-02
CYMRU Bogon Reference Dataset	Ongoing	Public	Census	Team Cymru	2013-09
Ark IPv4 Routed /24	Ongoing	Request access Public	Topology	Ark	2007-09
Ark IPv4 Routed /24 DNS Names	Ongoing	Request access Public	Topology	CAIDA DNS Lookup	2008-03
Ark IPv4 Prefix-Probing Traceroute	Ongoing	Request access Public	Topology	BGP+Ark	2015-12
Ark IPv6 Topology	Ongoing	Public	Topology	Ark	2008-12
Ark IPv6 DNS Names	Ongoing	Public	Topology	CAIDA DNS Lookup	2014-05
Ark Internet Topology Data Kit (ITDK)	Ongoing	Request access  Public	Topology	Ark + RouteViews	2010-01
IPv4 TNT MPLS Topology Dataset	Ongoing	Request access  Public	Topology	Ark + RouteViews	2018-01
Telescope: Raw Traffic Traces	Ongoing	Request access	Traffic	Telescope	Most recent 30 days
Telescope Aggregated Flow Dataset	Ongoing	Request access	Traffic	Telescope	2008-10
PeeringDB dataset	Ongoing	Public	Topology	PeeringDB	2010-07
AS Relationships	Ongoing	Public	Topology	RouteViews	1998-01

Ongoing	The data collection for this dataset is still active and has continuing, regularly scheduled collections.
One-time snapshot	The dataset comes from a single collection event that only occured once. Future events will have a different dataset name. See the Completed Datasets table for these datasets.
Complete	A formerly ongoing data collection that is finished, and will not be resumed. See the Completed Datasets table for these datasets.

Column Name	Column Description
Name	Dataset name
Status	Current status of this dataset, indicating whether the dataset collection is ongoing or not. "One-time snapshot" implies complete. A link to resulting papers or analysis would be linked from the status, if available.. Ongoing - The data collection for this dataset is still active and has continuing, regularly scheduled collections. One-time snapshot - The dataset comes from a single collection event that only occured once. Future events will have a different dataset name. See the Completed Datasets table for these datasets. Complete - A formerly ongoing data collection that is finished, and will not be resumed. See the Completed Datasets table for these datasets.
Availability	Public datasets are downloadable per the Acceptable Use Policy for the dataset. Restricted datasets require prior permission as well as adherence to the Acceptable Use Policy for that dataset. If a dataset requires a formal request for usage, the form will be linked.
Category	Our taxonomy of the general category this dataset belongs in.
Source	The source (e.g., network monitors, measurement infrastructure, etc) used to collect the dataset.
Start Date	The date when the data collection started.

External (non-CAIDA) Data

Other organizations across the globe, both academic and non-academic, provide access to internet-related data that also are of interest to the research community. Links to several of the more interesting datasets are given in a non-exhaustive list of external (non-CAIDA) data.

External (non-CAIDA) Publications using CAIDA Data

We maintain a list of publications from research using CAIDA data. The purpose of this list is to provide insight into past uses of CAIDA data. We rely on researchers who download our data to comply with the Acceptable Use Policies of CAIDA datasets in reporting published papers and presentations to us. See this list of Non-CAIDA Publications using CAIDA Data.

Report a Publication using CAIDA data

Users of CAIDA data agree to an AUA to notify CAIDA when they make a publication using CAIDA data. Report a publication using CAIDA data by completing the form or emailing data-info@caida.org.

Additional Information

Read more about CAIDA's efforts in data curation and promoting data sharing.

To keep up to date on CAIDA datasets you can subscribe to data-announce@caida.org. For other questions about CAIDA data, please contact data-info@caida.org. For more information about using CAIDA data, please see the CAIDA Data Usage FAQ.