No problem, I had my coffee 2 hours ago. 1) I would prefer e-mail, and ideally on-demand querying from a web form. And even more pie in the sky, something like Google Trends (i.e. http://www.google.com/trends?q=hurricane+katrina&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all) that shows the quantity of IP addresses that are being advertised over time. 2) Basically I would sign up for certain AS' and be informed when new blocks are added, or when blocks stop being advertised (for a full 24-hour period, I don't think there's value in seeing when it's withdrawn and re-advertised in one day). There might be some people that want to know when a block is first advertised, but that's less likely unless they're tracking the de-BOGON announcements. Regards, Frank -----Original Message----- From: Bill Woodcock [mailto:woody@pch.net] Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 12:57 PM To: Frank Bulk Cc: jonny@pch.net; Vijay Kumar Adhikari; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Identifying when netblocks have been assigned On Sat, 13 Sep 2008, Bill Woodcock wrote: > By that, I mean that they could be run daily, and specific results emailed > to people who were interested in following the allocation patterns for > specific organizations, any time there was a match. Following up on my own post for the second time tells me that I'm posting too early in the morning, or without the recommended seven-second broadcast delay between brain and fingers, but... My colleagues have reminded me that we already built this system two years ago, and it produces an RSS feed, rather than email results. Also, that we hadn't done as much as we should do to provide filtering tools to narrow down the results. So, two questions for the community: 1) Would people prefer to receive these results via email, or RSS, or some other mechanism? 2) What would the structure of the query or filter look like, ideally? What key would you like to be querying on, and how would you like the results focused? -Bill