Re: Country Level BGP Data

[Bill Woodcock <woody () pch net>]

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