[Chapter-delegates] ISP Transparency (a follow up to the Open Inter-networking call(s) today)

[Chris Grundemann]

Hi all,

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:

http://weblog.chrisgrundemann.com/index.php/2009/crowdsourcing-for-internet-transperancy/

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:

"... 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."

Cheers,
~Chris


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