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

[Narelle]

A range of these things do indeed exist and there's a good mapping of
them in one of the CAIDA papers (a report from a workshop on Internet
measurement methods, I think, within the last few years).

Apologies but I can't fish this out at present, probably not for a while...


Narelle
isoc-au

> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Chris Grundemann <cgrundemann at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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Narelle
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