Inter-domain routing stability measurement

Prior inter-domain routing measurements include passive analysis of routing table growth and error injection for convergence measurement. The measurement here is solely based on passive logging of BGP control traffic from measurement points including a major European ISP's backbone networks and some academic networks. Its goal is to understand the failures involved in today's much discussed routing stability issues. As a result, the general status of the Internet reachability and flapping has been observed. Some explanations for the erroneous phenomenon are offered. Though only macro effects from the control plane are measured, part of the future study includes determining work to determine whether these results correlate with the data forwarding plane results.