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Add the Rationale section to README (closes #121)
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REPO_POLICIES.md requires a Rationale section saying why the program
exists. RIS Live sends only the changes to the routing table, so it
cannot answer which AS an address is routed to now; routewatch keeps
the table the changes add up to and answers from it.

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@@ -5,6 +5,16 @@ table in real time: it streams BGP UPDATE messages from the RIPE RIS Live
service, maintains a live routing table in SQLite, and provides HTTP APIs for
querying routing information.
## Rationale
RIPE RIS Live streams the BGP updates that RIPE's route collectors receive, as
they happen, from the moment a client connects. It reports changes, not the
routing table they add up to, so it cannot say which AS an IP address is routed
to now or which routes a prefix has. RouteWatch keeps that table: it applies the
feed's updates to live routing tables in its own SQLite database and answers
from them, so an IP-to-AS lookup or a prefix page shows the routes as the feed
last reported them.
## Features
- Real-time streaming of BGP updates from RIPE RIS Live