Coordinating BGP Policy and Tooling Across the Global R&E Infrastructure#

Brenna Meade, Jeff Bartig, Steve Wallace (Internet2)

• Why: Community-scale BGP hygiene tooling with concrete deliverables — a model for turning fragmented, per-operator filtering policy into shared infrastructure. (from abstract only; this is a BoF with no paper)
• What: An Internet2 + CAIDA toolset (NSF-sponsored) covering four pieces: a Global R&E BGP Route Report giving route-level views across participating infrastructure — IRR consistency (with visibility into membership in the IRR AS-SETs used for R&E filtering), RPKI ROV status, inferred path preference (R&E vs. commodity transit), and signals of route leakage in both directions between R&E and commodity paths; an authoritative Global R&E Prefix Registry (~12,000 prefixes) that Internet2 will itself use for filtering and publish for community use; an AS Topology Observatory showing primary and backup interconnect structure; and an interactive IRR AS-SET planning tool for building customer-cone AS-SETs.
• How: Aggregation of routing data with RIR attribution (organization/contact context) into route-level reports; the prefix registry becomes a filterable community dataset.
• Where applicable: R&E-specific datasets, but the toolset design (leak detection between constrained communities and commodity paths, authoritative prefix registries) is a pattern any closed community of networks could replicate. It's a BoF: tools are in progress and the session is explicitly soliciting feedback on priorities, data quality, and governance.