network-v1/research/next-round.md

Next research rounds

Round 2 — canonical registries and machine-readable feeds

• Record RDAP bootstrap and endpoints for all five RIRs.
• Add RIR delegated-statistics feeds and source licenses/terms.
• Map IANA registries relevant to DNS, IPv4/IPv6, ASNs, and protocol parameters.
• Map RPKI trust anchors, repositories, validators, ROAs, and ASPA status.
• Review AFRINIC's current governance and registry-continuity position from primary legal/organizational sources.
• Retry and assess Packet Clearing House as an IXP/operational data source.

Round 3 — networks and interconnection

• Define records for ASNs, organizations, networks, IXPs, facilities, and relationships.
• Evaluate PeeringDB API ingestion with attribution, timestamps, and rate limits.
• Evaluate IX-F member exports and reconcile identifiers with PeeringDB.
• Add regional IXP associations and network operator groups beyond Euro-IX/NANOG.
• Compare Route Views and RIPE RIS collector coverage.

Round 4 — physical infrastructure

• Define cable-system, landing-station, terrestrial-route, data-center, and owner/operator schemas.
• Corroborate submarine cable records with operator sites, regulators, permits, and filings.
• Track announced, under-construction, ready-for-service, operational, and retired states separately.
• Investigate public satellite, spectrum, and terrestrial backbone sources.

Round 5 — countries, policy, and resilience

• Build a country index of regulators, ministries, ccTLD managers, national CERTs, and major IXPs.
• Add outage/measurement sources such as RIPE Atlas and other transparent observatories.
• Model dependencies and concentration without equating registration with control.
• Define a reproducible freshness report and scheduled source checks.

Data-model evolution trigger

Stay with CSV until records need repeated nested relationships or automated merges. Then introduce versioned JSON/YAML source records and generate CSV/Markdown views. Do not add a database merely for presentation.