We are pleased to announce that MERIT will continue Vern Paxson's NPD project under his approvement. We will use his software NPD and his methodology. The effort is to continue the diagnosis of end-to-end routing behavior in the Internet. Beside that we will use those data to analize latency and packet loss along the pathes of this project. We will also investigate the influnce of route flap on routing behavior by analyzing route path from BGP announcement and route path from traceroute. We will try to find out whether t he traffic in the Internet has impact on the routing behavior. To fulfill this project, we need cooperation from our nanog community. What you can contribute is a site which can run npd software and announcement of routing information to the route servers. In return, we may have a better understand of Internet, you may see your connectivity to all other sites that may shows your connectivity to the Internet. Interested people can contact me at nanog, or send me e-mail at dunl@merit.edu. My name is Dun Liu. You can also directly download npd software, install it, and let me know. The software is at nic.merit.net. By anomynous ftp, it is at "routing_arbiter/tools". Your help is greatly appreciated! Dun Liu at Merit