Hi all,<br><br>In the discussion on this afternoon's call I was reminded of an article I wrote some months ago and thought it may be relevant to share:<br><br><a href="http://weblog.chrisgrundemann.com/index.php/2009/crowdsourcing-for-internet-transperancy/">http://weblog.chrisgrundemann.com/index.php/2009/crowdsourcing-for-internet-transperancy/</a><br>
<br>The just of it is that I believe that the best way to achieve true ISP transparency for the most users possible (on a global scale) is through some form of distributed software tool that can record pertinent statistics and pool the information anonymously:<br>
<br>"... a tool (or group of tools) based on this approach could make overall
Internet performance and architecture very transparent by setting up a
kind of “bot-net for good” where page load time, file download speed, rtt, and
various other pertinent but generally anonymous data could be collected
and aggregated for analysis and display by and to the public at large.
Because many people are likely to visit the same sites and download the
same files, relative performance should be easily visible from ISP to
ISP, country to country and region to region. Having this “good
spyware” do the work all but eliminates the need for end-users to deal
with collecting and assessing their own data, which is a current hurdle
to gathering such performance data in any scalable manner."<br><br>Cheers,<br>~Chris<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>@ChrisGrundemann<br><a href="http://weblog.chrisgrundemann.com">weblog.chrisgrundemann.com</a><br><a href="http://www.burningwiththebush.com">www.burningwiththebush.com</a><br>
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