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+# BGP data plane visibility
+
+Currently a operator can not identify if a certain IP, which is allocated, is actually announced to the outer world.
+We want to gather information about the routes on the edge of the network of every partition and store them in the metal-api.
+
+This will bring more visibility to the network and ip address usage in the dataplane.
+
+To achieve this goal we need to implement a new microservice which collects these data and send them via grpc to the metal-api.
+The metal-api will store them in a separate table. Later when a network or single IP is described
+a lookup to that table is made to show when this ip was last announced.
+
+## metal-api
+
+TODO: describe the new grpc endpoint API and the table structure where the data is stored
+
+## new microservice on the border router
+
+TODO: decide name
+
+HINT: reuse the frr api logic from frr-monitor
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 Once a proposal was accepted, an issue should be raised and the implementation should be done in a separate PR.
 
 | Name                      | Description                                    |      State      |
-| :------------------------ | :--------------------------------------------- | :-------------: |
+|:--------------------------|:-----------------------------------------------|:---------------:|
 | [MEP-1](MEP1/README.md)   | Distributed Control Plane Deployment           | `In Discussion` |
 | [MEP-2](MEP2/README.md)   | Two Factor Authentication                      |    `Aborted`    |
 | [MEP-3](MEP3/README.md)   | Machine Re-Installation to preserve local data |   `Completed`   |
@@ -30,3 +30,4 @@ Once a proposal was accepted, an issue should be raised and the implementation s
 | [MEP-10](MEP10/README.md) | SONiC Support                                  |   `Completed`   |
 | [MEP-11](MEP11/README.md) | Auditing of metal-stack resources              |   `Completed`   |
 | [MEP-12](MEP12/README.md) | Rack Spreading                                 |   `Completed`   |
+| [MEP-13](MEP13/README.md) | BGP data plane Visibility                      | `In Discussion` |