Hi. If you use any of the NSFNET-related reports on nic.merit.edu, we'd really appreciate hearing any comments you may have. Thanks to those who've responded so far to our survey. And keep those replies coming! Also, please feel free to help us out by forwarding this survey to anyone you know who may use the reports but who may not be on the regional-techs or nwg list. Thanks again. --Steve Widmayer / Merit *********************************************************************** Date: Fri, 4 Jun 93 13:27:28 -0400 From: "Andrew Adams" <ala@merit.edu> To: regional-techs@merit.edu Subject: report usage survey Hi all. As part of the NSFNET semi-weekly configuration process, Merit produces a collection of reports summarizing network configuration information. These reports are: ans_core.now as-as.now as-gw.now as-site.now country.now gate-gw.now net-comp.now net-ter.now net-net.now netcount.now non-us.now nss-as.now nss-gw.now A brief description of each report appears at the end of this survey. We are currently re-assessing what reports we generate and would like to determine exactly which reports are the most useful to our customers. Also, customers have requested other reports that we do not now produce. In order to better serve the network community with these reports, we ask you to complete the following survey. Please respond to report-survey@merit.edu by June 30, 1993. We hope that some ideas can be discussed informally at the upcoming Regional Tech's meeting in Reston. Please note that the deployment of CIDR is going to necessitate several report changes. For instance, perhaps all occurrences of network numbers will need to be replaced with aggregate number/net mask pairs. Comments regarding these issues would be most welcome. (1) Which, if any, of the above reports do you use? (2) Of the reports you use, are there fields that you ignore and that therefore could be removed? (3) How often do you use these reports? (4) Are our reports critical to your operations? (5) Please provide a brief description of how you use these reports. (6) Are you aware of the public Merit Policy Routing Database clients? (They can be found with documentation on merit.edu:/pub/src/prdbshow.tar.Z) (7) What information would you like us to provide, either through a client or a report, which we do not currently provide? Is there an existing report which would meet your need if additional fields were added? (8) Additional comments Individual responses to this survey will remain confidential. Thank you for your time and thoughts. Sincerely, Merit/NSFNET staff, Merit Network, Inc. About Merit Policy Routing Data The files above can be found on nic.merit.edu. The database client code and documentation can be found on merit.edu:/pub/src/prdbshow.tar.Z. Report Description Summaries Report Name Description ----------- ----------- ans_core.now Net address, name, country, connection date, AS preferences for ANS CO+RE nets country.now Net address, name, country, connection date, AS preferences for all announced nets, ordered by country code non-us.now Net address, name, country, connection date, AS preferences for all non-US nets, ordered by net address net-ter.now Net address, name, country, connection date, AS preferences for all announced nets, ordered by net address net-comp.now Net address, connection date, AS preferences in easily parsable format as-site.now Net address, name, primary and secondary ASs, location info sorted by AS number net-net.now Net address, name, primary and secondary ASs, location info sorted by net address nets.as_<AS Number> Net address, name, primary and secondary ASs, location info sorted by net address as-gw.now AS num, IP of gate peering for AS, NSS with which gate peers, protocol and gate description ordered by AS number gate-gw.now AS num, address of gate peering for AS, NSS with which gate peers, protocol and gate description ordered by gate address nss-gw.now AS num, address of gate peering for AS, NSS with which gate peers, protocol and gate description ordered by NSS number as-as.now AS number, NSS with which AS peers, AS description ordered by AS number nss-as.now AS number, NSS with which AS peers, AS description ordered by NSS number netcount.now AS name, AS number, NSS with which AS peers, number of nets using AS for primary, secondary or tertiary path