History


Operational Focus
Data collection was "after-thought"

All started back in 1995
Pre "Looking Glass"
Wanted Cisco CLI regex matching
I was building statewide networking for Oregon
Found that I needed to know how other providers saw my prefixes
Randy Bush gave me the first 2 views 
MAE-EAST, MAE-WEST

Critical mass of interesting peers ~ 1998 
Service became very popular with many NOCs
Large enough data set to interest researchers

Pretty pictures kc (et al) drew helped 
Always get a burst of new peers after she distributes posters at NANOG, IETF, etc