Researchers who are working on improving BGP are familar with popular sources of BGP updates and tables including :

• http://www.routeviews.org
• http://www.ripe.net/ris
• http://bgp.potaroo.net
• http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/topology/

Recently, three new sources of BGP information have been announced. First, Ricardo Veloso and other researchers at the Internet Research Lab of UCLA have developped a web-based interface called cyclops, http://cyclops.cs.ucla.edu/ to their BGP database. Second, in the framework of the FP7 Trilogy project, Rolf Winter has developped another database that providers topological information about the public internet http://topology.neclab.eu/ Third, Andree Toonk provides on http://bgpmon.net/ statistics on the deployment of IPv6 and 32bits AS numbers