MAT-WG,
thankyou for giving me the opportunity to present on "The Value of WLAN
Measurements for the R&E Community" at the Measurement and Tools Working
Group at RIPE69.
You can find my presentation and stenography logs at:
https://ripe69.ripe.net/presentations/91-eduroam-and-Atlas-RIPE69.pdfhttps://ripe69.ripe.net/archives/steno/40
To progress this work within the RIPE NCC Atlas development team I'd like
your input into the following five (5) points:
#1: For "opt-in" WLAN measurements to be enabled on RIPE Atlas
As a point of clarification (and reiterated by Daniel Karrenberg) the
intention is that ALL v3 probes will be capable of WLAN measurements - but
measurements will ONLY be turned on by a probe host.
#2: WLAN measurements will support associating to an "open" or 802.1X
protected network for the purposes of performing a measurement
As an active monitoring network the Atlas probes WILL NOT scan and report
on all/available SSIDs. It will ONLY associate with EXPLICITLY defined
SSIDs listed in the measurement.
For eduroam quality purposes the success/failure of an 802.1X associations
is initially the most interesting part of the measurement in determining
whether sites are correctly deploying this service. There will be results
related to the authentication process.
#3: Any measurements performed over the wireless interface are aligned with
a request to associate/authenticate to a particular network.
The wireless interface will be connected only for particular tests bundled
with the association to an SSID. All other tests will be performed via the
wired interface as is currently the case.
#4: The schedule for implementation will be determined by the RIPE NCC R&D
team
...but hopefully your support for this work will allow them to prioritise
this work while not jeopardising the other commitments the team has made to
the community.
#5: This proposal is inline with your understanding of "WiFi measurements"
on the Atlas roadmap
I'd be particularly interested in your feedback on whether you thought that
the WiFi Measurements listed in the http://roadmap.ripe.net/ripe-atlas/
would accomplish the above or something completely different.
My feeling from the room was that the above was largely accepted. I'd
appreciate those that voiced their support to also do this on the mailing
list again. If there's any confusion I'm willing to clarify further.
Thanks,
-Brook
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Hi,
The results of the experiments that have been presented during the MAT
session of the RIPE 69 meeting by Randy Bush (*On the Suitability of Two
Large-Scale Internet Measurement Platforms)* are now publicly available in
http://psg.com/~thomas/.
Best regards,
Thomas
Dear colleagues,
We are proud to announce that nine new RIPE Atlas anchors have been
activated since my previous announcement:
* de-cal-as39702, S-IT Informationstechnologie Betreiber, Calw, Germany.
* nz-hlz-as681, hosted by the University of Waikato, Hamilton.
This is the first RIPE Atlas anchor in New Zealand!
* Three anchors by DigitalOcean: uk-slo-as202109 located in Slough,
United Kingdom, us-sfo-as14061 located in San Francisco, United States,
& sg-sin-as133165 in Singapore City, Singapore.
* de-ett-as202040, hosted by SCT Schiele GmbH in Ettlingen, Germany.
* nl-ams-as3265, hosted by XS4ALL in Amsterdam, Nederland.
* us-den-as7922, second anchor hosted by Comcast, this time in Denver,
United States.
* de-nue-as33988, hosted by teamix GmbH in Nuremberg, Germany.
This brings the total number of anchors to 78.
Due the summer holidays, the growth in RIPE Atlas anchors have slowed
down, but we do expect a new "surge" in the last quarter of this year.
You can follow the activation rate on the graph here:
https://atlas.ripe.net/results/maps/network-coverage/
The map of all anchor locations:
https://atlas.ripe.net/anchors/map/
You can access the anchoring measurements for all anchors at:
https://atlas.ripe.net/anchors/list/
And here are the logos and links to hosting companies:
https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/community/#!tab-anchor-sponsors
We are still accepting new applications from individuals and
organisations interested in hosting a RIPE Atlas anchor.
We are particularly interested in deploying anchors in the Middle East,
Western Asia, Latin America and Africa, in order to add more
geographical diversity to the measurement data.
To apply for your own RIPE Atlas anchor:
https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/become-an-anchor-host/
Kind regards,
Vesna Manojlovic
Measurements Community Building Team
RIPE NCC
From: Thomas Holterbach <thomasholterbach(a)gmail.com>
> did you hear daniel karrenberg on making the data public?
Yes, the data of the first experiment is already public and available on
http://psg.com/~thomas/
Tomorrow I'll add the data of the second experiment.
In the meeting George Michaelson referred to the light maps from space
that were part of the the inspiration for RIPE Atlas as shown in
http://www.slideshare.net/ripencc/ripe-atlas-a-real-big-measurement-network…
Attached is a map of the RIPE Atlas probes in a similar colour scheme
which I did a couple of months ago. It is large, you can zoom in.
I leave it to your judgement how similar these are. Personally I am
amazed how how well one can see things around Europe.
Daniel
