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New on RIPE Labs: Measuring Countries and IXPs in the SEE Region
by Mirjam Kuehne 24 Apr '15

24 Apr '15

Dear colleagues, In this post we look at 10 countries in South East Europe and see how we can use RIPE Atlas to get a sense of routing and the interconnectedness of networks in these countries. This is the longer version of a lightning talk Vesna Manojlovic gave at the recent SEE 4 meeting: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/measuring-countries-and-ixps-in-the… Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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Draft agenda for the MAT WG @ RIPE70
by Christian Kaufmann 22 Apr '15

22 Apr '15

Hello All, This is the draft agenda for the Measurement, Analysis and Tools Working Group session at RIPE70: A. Introduction: Welcome, Scribe, Jabber, Agenda (5m) B. New CoChair (5m) C. A basic ISP Ranking by market share, from random measurements - George Michaelson - 20 min D. RIPE Atlas update - Vesna - 10m E. “BGPStream” (an open source framework for live/historical BGP data analysis) - Chiara Orsini - 20m F. Measuring Delay and Packet Loss at an IXP - Arnold Nipper - 20min G. Result of the RIPE Atlas Hackathon - Vesna - 10 min Z. AOB Timings are approximate:-) The session will take place at 14:00 local time on Wednesday 13th May. See you in Amsterdam! Christian MAT WG Chair

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Results of RIPE Atlas data visualization hackathon
by Vesna Manojlovic 10 Apr '15

10 Apr '15

Dear all, In March 2015, a diverse group of contributors got together to come up with creative ways to visualise the health of the Internet using RIPE Atlas open measurements data. It was the first RIPE Atlas hackathon. Impressive results were hacked together by programmers, designers and operators during an intensive weekend of work and fun in Amsterdam. In this article we celebrate hackathon achievements, document and promote hackathon results, create a memento for participants and report in detail for the benefit of the rest of the community: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/ripe-atlas-hackathon-results Numbers * We received more than 70 applications for participation * Present: 24 participants & one no-show, 6 jury members and 11 support staff (coincidentally: 42!) * 6 out of 25 participants were female (24%) * 3 jury members were female (50%!) * Ten final projects were presented * Four projects were awarded prizes * 14 free & open source software projects were published on GitHub * 20 litres of tea were consumed * 10 large pizzas were eaten for lunch on Saturday * Two kilograms of chocolate Easter Eggs were munched up * 12 Club-Mate bottles were emptied Links: - All code: RIPE Atlas community pages on GitHub: https://github.com/RIPE-Atlas-Community/ripe-atlas-community-contrib/blob/m… - Videos: on RIPE NCC YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/RIPENCC/videos?shelf_id=0&view=0&sort=dd - Hackathon presentations and code: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/ripe-atlas-hackathon-presentations More links & photos in the article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/ripe-atlas-hackathon-results Regards, Vesna

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MAT WG Chair selection process
by Christian Kaufmann 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

Dear MAT WG, as you might have seen on other RIPE WG mailinglists or experienced at the last RIPE meeting in London, all the WG's are coming up with a documented and transparent Chair selection process. In the past - the Chair which wanted to leave organised himself a replacement which was then accepted via humming or show of hands during the WG Session. This was not allowing people which where interested in becoming a chair but did not know about the upcoming change to run for this position. Also did WG Chairs tend to stay for a long time so there was not much chance for other people to become a Chair. The new process should solve this problems and also confirm every so often that the WG still want to have the existing chair as chair. My proposal for the MAT WG is the following, which is basically identically to what others like the DBWG are doing. 1. A call for interested parties is made on the WG mailing list at three yearly intervals, or as needed 2. Interested parties have 2 weeks to make their interest known via the mailing list 3. The MAT-WG chairs issue a call for discussion as per normal. WG members express their approval or otherwise of the presented candidates. 4. After two weeks the chairs declare consensus as they would do for a policy proposal This process would be used to reconfirm the existing chairs as well. Please let me know if this proposal suits our WG or not in the next 4 weeks. After we agreed on a process I will issue the first call for the vacant CoChair position. Best regards, Christian Kaufmann MAT WG (Co)-Chair

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Membership Statistics and Measurements in the MENOG Region
by Mirjam Kuehne 02 Apr '15

02 Apr '15

Dear colleagues, With the MENOG 15 meeting taking place this week, we looked at various statistics and measurements in the MENOG region, for instance membership growth, IPv6 deployment and interconnections measured with RIPE Atlas. Please find the results on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/mirjam/how-does-the-menog-region-measure-up Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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New on RIPE Labs: Amsterdam Power Outage as Seen by RIPE Atlas
by Mirjam Kuehne 30 Mar '15

30 Mar '15

Dear colleagues, As you might have heard, there was a power outage last week Friday in the north of The Netherlands, a country with a very high density of RIPE Atlas probes. This density provides us with some interesting data and visualisation. You can find more details on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/andreas_strikos/amsterdam-power-outage-as-see… Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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Call for Presentations at RIPE 70 in Amsterdam
by Christian Kaufmann 24 Mar '15

24 Mar '15

Dear MAT WG, I am working on putting together the agenda for the MAT working group meeting on Wednesday 13th May at RIPE 70 in Amsterdam and there are still slots left. If you have something you would like to present, please let me know in the next two weeks. Thanks a lot, Christian Kaufmann MAT WG Chair

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New on RIPE Labs: Measuring Countries and IXPs with RIPE Atlas
by Mirjam Kuehne 23 Mar '15

23 Mar '15

Dear colleagues, We've been working with various Internet Exchange Points to see how RIPE Atlas active measurements can provide insight into how they are keeping local traffic local. To explore this we've created a set of python scripts to analyse Internet traffic paths between RIPE Atlas probes in a given country and see if they traverse IXPs. Please find more information on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/measuring-ixps-with-ripe-atlas Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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Re: [mat-wg] Updated Draft RIPE Atlas Service Terms and Conditions, v3.2
by kruyff4＠gmail.com 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

Thanks for taking into account the comments made on the new terms and conditions. The 3.2 draft seems to be a sensible set of terms that I am happy to agree to. Regards, -- Adam Piggott, Proprietor, Proactive Services (Computing) Protect yourself from phishing - use plain text email! http://proactiveservices.co.uk/sig/plaintext.html

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RIPE 70 draft programme and CFP 2nd deadline 12 april 2015
by Benno Overeinder 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

Dear colleagues, Following the past submission deadline, a Draft Programme for RIPE 70 is now published at: https://ripe70.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/draft-programme/ We will accept new proposals until 12 April 2015 for the remaining few slots. You can find the Call for Presentations and guidelines for submissions at: https://ripe70.ripe.net/submit-topic/cpf/ https://ripe70.ripe.net/submit-topic/guidelines/ Kind regards, Benno Overeinder RIPE PC -- Benno J. Overeinder NLnet Labs http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/

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New on RIPE Labs: Visualising RIPE Atlas Anchor Measurements
by Mirjam Kuehne 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

Dear colleagues, Salim Gasmi, one of the RIPE Atlas anchor hosts, visualised the measurements collected by the RIPE Atlas anchor. This monitoring page is publicly available and allows to analyse topology changes and helps debugging network issues. Please find more details on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/salim_gasmi/visualising-ripe-atlas-anchor-mea… Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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New on RIPE Labs: Cyclone Pam and the Internet in Vanuatu
by Mirjam Kuehne 13 Mar '15

13 Mar '15

Dear colleagues, While the cyclone Pam is battering the South Pacific, we're monitoring with RIPEstat how this affects Vanuatu. Please see on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/wilhelm/cyclone-pam-and-the-internet-in-vanua… Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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Ten new RIPE Atlas anchors joined the community
by Michela Galante 03 Mar '15

03 Mar '15

Dear colleagues, More and more organisations from all over the world are hosting RIPE Atlas anchors - we now receive two to three applications every week! We are proud to announce that ten new RIPE Atlas anchors have been activated since our previous announcement, bringing the total to 110: * sk-bts-as29405 hosted by VNET a.s. in Bratislava, Slovakia * Two anchors hosted by Globalways AG in Germany : de-fra-as48918 in Frankfurt and de-str-as48918 in Stuttgart * ua-iev-as29632 hosted by Hitech Service LLC in Kyiv, Ukraine * in-bom-as33480 hosted by WEB WERKS INDIA, sponsored by APNIC in Mumbai, India * dk-blp-as197495 hosted by Larsen Data ApS in Ballerup, Denmark * cz-brq-as197451 hosted by Brno University of Technology in Brno, Czech Republic * ee-jvi-as198068 hosted by FastVPS Eesti OU in Jõhvi, Estonia * bg-sof-as197216 hosted by Delta Softmedia Ltd in Sofia, Bulgaria * nl-ens-as1133 hosted by the University of Twente in Enschede, Netherlands The map of all anchor locations is available at: 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. There are more organisations that want to host a RIPE Atlas anchor but don’t have the necessary funding. To learn more about sponsoring an anchor, please contact us at mcb(a)ripe.net To apply for your own RIPE Atlas anchor: https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/become-an-anchor-host/ Kind regards, Michela Galante Measurements Community Building Team RIPE NCC

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New on RIPE Labs: Tracebox, a Tool to Detect Middleboxes
by Mirjam Kuehne 25 Feb '15

25 Feb '15

Dear colleagues, Please find a new article on RIPE Labs, contributed by Julien Colmonts: Tracebox, a Tool to Detect Middleboxes: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/julien_colmonts/tracebox-a-nice-tool-to-detec… Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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Re: [mat-wg] Updated Draft RIPE Atlas Service Terms and Conditions, v3.2
by kruyff4＠gmail.com 25 Feb '15

25 Feb '15

Thanks for taking into account the comments made on the new terms and conditions. The 3.2 draft seems to be a sensible set of terms that I am happy to agree to. Regards, -- Adam Piggott, Proprietor, Proactive Services (Computing) Protect yourself from phishing - use plain text email! http://proactiveservices.co.uk/sig/plaintext.html

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New on RIPE Labs: Stopping Support for Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP in RIPE Atlas and RIPEstat
by Mirjam Kuehne 24 Feb '15

24 Feb '15

Dear colleagues, Microsoft ended support for Windows XP as of April 2014. We're about to change RIPE Atlas and RIPEstat to stop support for Internet Explorer 8 running on these systems. Please find some more information on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/kistel/stopping-support-for-internet-explorer… Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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New on RIPE Labs: NTP Measurements with RIPE Atlas
by Mirjam Kuehne 19 Feb '15

19 Feb '15

Dear colleagues, This new RIPE Labs article describes how RIPE Atlas probes and anchors maintain their clocks, and how accurate these clocks are. We also plan to make the NTP measurements we describe here available as an additional measurement type for RIPE Atlas users: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/philip_homburg/ntp-measurements-with-ripe-atl… Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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New on RIPE Labs: Visualising Network Outages with RIPE Atlas using CartoDB
by Mirjam Kuehne 03 Feb '15

03 Feb '15

Dear colleagues, This new article on RIPE Labs shows some prototypes of visualising network outages with RIPE Atlas using CartoDB: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/visualising-network-outages-with-ri… Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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Moving forward with proposed RIPE Atlas Service Terms and Conditions
by Christian Kaufmann 30 Jan '15

30 Jan '15

Dear MAT-WG, As Vesna recently announced on this list, the RIPE NCC is seeking final comments on the draft RIPE Atlas Service Terms and Conditions. There has been some positive feedback on the latest draft, and if there are no further comments, I would like to encourage the RIPE NCC to move forward with finalising these terms and conditions. They can then begin the implementation plan that Vesna explained in her email on 1 December: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/mat-wg/2014-December/000517.html <http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/mat-wg/2014-December/000517.html> The draft RIPE Atlas Service Terms and Conditions are available here: https://atlas.ripe.net/legal/terms-conditions-draft/ <https://atlas.ripe.net/legal/terms-conditions-draft/> I would encourage you to please take the time to look over both the draft document and the implementation plan if you have not already done so. best regards, Christian Kaufmann MAT-WG Chair

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#facebookdown? Read on RIPE Labs What Internet Measurement Data Shows
by Mirjam Kuehne 27 Jan '15

27 Jan '15

Dear colleagues, While at this point it is still unclear what exactly happened at Facebook on 27 January, we collect data on the Internet control plane (BGP) and data plane that allows us to provide some insight into what happened with Facebook's connectivity to the rest of the Internet. Please find more details on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/facebookdown-and-what-internet-data Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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Portolan/Desktop
by Luciano Lenzini 23 Jan '15

23 Jan '15

Dear Colleague, The University of Pisa and IIT, an Institute of the Italian National Research Council, have designed and developed a crowdsourcing-based system, named PORTOLAN, which initially employed smartphones as mobile monitors probing the Internet. The aim of PORTOLAN is to enhance the current topology of the Internet at the Autonomous System level of abstraction - all with the contribution of volunteers. Find out more on our website (http://portolan.iet.unipi.it). Portolan was initially deployed in 2012 and since then it has been available on smartphone clients running Android. In order to increase the number of users, Portolan IS NOW available for desktop operating systems Linux, Windows and OS X. In this way we hope to obtain a more precise Internet structure with respect to the one now available. PORTOLAN works in the background, it is designed not to interfere in any way with users' activities and does not affect the smartphone/desktop's overall performance. In order to motivate users to contribute to the PORTOLAN project, we have added several services, which include diagnostic network tools (such as Ping, Paris Traceroute with Multipath Detection Algorithm, Maximum Throughput achievable along a path, etc.) and coverage measurement tools (available on smartphones only). All the tools are totally under the user's control. Data collected by these tools are stored in our server located in Pisa, in a completely anonymous way. The PORTOLAN component that runs on Android smartphones can be downloaded by users from Google play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.unipi.iet.portolan.tracero ute). The PORTOLAN component for desktop, available for Windows 7/8, Linux and OS X, can be downloaded at our website http://portolan.iet.unipi.it/download. The success of Portolan depends upon the number of users who join the experiment. Feel free to share this message with your colleagues students and friends!. Many thanks in advance for your cooperation. All the best, Luciano On behalf of the Portolan Development Team ------------------------------------------------ Prof. Luciano Lenzini Associate Researcher IIT/CNR lenzini44(a)gmail.com Former Full Professor Department of Information Engineering School of Engineering University of Pisa, Italy http://www.iet.unipi.it/~lenzini and Research Director CNUCE/CNR

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Proposal for public HTTP measurements
by Robert Kisteleki 21 Jan '15

21 Jan '15

Dear RIPE Atlas users, The topic of publicly available HTTP measurements in RIPE Atlas comes up from time to time. There were a number of discussions about pros and cons for this feature over the years (including exposing probe hosts to unnecessary risks of other users "measuring" just about any kind of HTTP content out there), with no firm outcome. While we understand that this feature would come handy for some of our users, it does not benefit everyone. Therefore our proposal is the following: 1. We'll enable HTTP measurements to be performed by all atlas users, from any probes. 2. The targets of such measurements can only be RIPE Atlas anchors (these already run HTTP servers, see https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/anchors/). 3. Parameters like costs, minimum frequency, maximum number of probes involved, etc. will be set by the development team, just as with the other measurements. 4. The RIPE NCC will still be able to support other, vetted HTTP measurements as long as it benefits the community, as well as other HTTP measurements that we deem operationally useful. These will be evaluated on a case by case basis. Please speak up at the MAT working group list (mat-wg(a)ripe.net) if you support / don't support this proposal, of if you have any other opinion about it. Regards, Robert Kisteleki RIPE NCC R&D manager, for the RIPE Atlas team

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Six new RIPE Atlas anchors, and that makes one hundred total!
by Vesna Manojlovic 16 Jan '15

16 Jan '15

Dear colleagues, We are proud to announce that six new RIPE Atlas anchors have been activated since our previous announcement: * uk-lon-as8676 hosted by PRT Systems Ltd in London, United Kingdom * br-sao-as22548 hosted by Núcleo de Informação e Coordenação do Ponto BR - NIC.br in Sao Paulo, Brazil * us-qas-as10745 hosted by ARIN on behalf of RIPE NCC in Ashburn, United States * us-phx-as53824 hosted by Liquid Web in Phoenix, United States * se-sln-as49515 hosted by Nordiska Servercentralen in Solna, Sweden * dk-blp-as39839 hosted by DK Hostmaster A/S in Ballerup, Denmark This brings the total number of anchors to 100! We wrote an article on RIPE Labs to cover all the details, which includes some changes to the anchoring measurements: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/one-hundred-ripe-atlas-… To apply for your own RIPE Atlas anchor: https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/become-an-anchor-host/ For any other questions, please contact us at atlas(a)ripe.net Kind regards, Vesna Manojlovic Measurements Community Building Team RIPE NCC

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Call For Presentations RIPE 70, submission deadline 1 March 2015
by Benno Overeinder 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

Dear colleagues, Please find the CFP for RIPE 70 below. The deadline for submissions is 1 March 2015. Please also note that speakers do not receive any extra reduction or funding towards the meeting fee at the RIPE Meetings. Kind regards, Benno Overeinder for the RIPE Programme Committee http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-meetings/pc ---------------------------------------- Call for Presentations A RIPE Meeting is an open event where Internet Service Providers, network operators and other interested parties get together. Although the meeting is mostly technical, it is also a chance for people to meet and network with others in their field. RIPE 70 will take place from 11-15 May 2015 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The RIPE Programme Committee (PC) is now seeking content proposals from the RIPE community for the plenary session presentations, BoFs (Birds of a Feather sessions), panels, workshops, tutorials and lightning talks at RIPE 70. The PC is looking for presentations covering topics of network engineering and operations, including but not limited to: - IPv6 deployment - Managing IPv4 scarcity in operations - Commercial transactions of IPv4 addresses - Data centre technologies - Network and DNS operations - Internet governance and regulatory practices - Network and routing security - Content delivery - Internet peering and mobile data exchange Submissions RIPE Meeting attendees are quite sensitive to keeping presentations non-commercial, and product marketing talks are strongly discouraged. Repeated audience feedback shows that the most successful talks focus on operational experience, research results, or case studies. For example, presenters wishing to describe a commercial solution should focus on the underlying technology and not attempt a product demonstration. The RIPE PC accepts proposals for different presentation formats, including plenary session presentations, tutorials, workshops, BoFs (Birds of a Feather sessions) and lightning talks. See the full descriptions of these formats at https://ripe70.ripe.net/submit-topic/presentation-formats/ Presenters who are proposing a panel or BoF are encouraged to include speakers from several (perhaps even competing) companies and/or a neutral facilitator. In addition to presentations selected in advance for the plenary, the RIPE PC also offers several time slots for "lightning talks", which are selected immediately before or during the conference. The following general requirements apply: - Proposals for plenary session presentations, BoFs, panels, workshops and tutorials must be submitted for full consideration no later than 1 March 2015, using the meeting submission system at https://ripe70.ripe.net/submit-topic/submission-form/. Proposals submitted after this date will be considered on a space-available basis. Important Dates regarding RIPE 70 can be found at: https://ripe70.ripe.net/programme/important-dates/ - Lightning talks should also be submitted using the meeting submission system (https://ripe70.ripe.net/submit-topic/submission-form/) and can be submitted just days before the RIPE Meeting starts or even during the meeting week. The allocation of lightning talk slots will be announced in short notice – in some cases on the same day but often one day prior to the relevant session. - Presenters should indicate how much time they will require. See more information on time slot allocations per presentation format at https://ripe70.ripe.net/submit-topic/presentation-formats/. - Proposals for talks will only be considered by the PC if they contain at least draft presentation slides (slides may be updated later on). For panels, proposals must contain a clear description, as well as the names of invited panellists, presenters and moderators. - Due to potential technical issues, it is expected that most, if not all, presenters/panellists will be physically present at the RIPE Meeting. If you have any questions or requests concerning content submissions, please email pc [at] ripe [dot] net. -- Benno J. Overeinder NLnet Labs http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/

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Deprecating the old measurement UI
by Robert Kisteleki 09 Jan '15

09 Jan '15

Dear all, In October last year, we introduced a new UI for browsing and scheduling measurements. For details, see: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/ripe-atlas-new-measurem… Your feedback about this was predominantly positive, and we’d like to thank everyone who helped this development with suggestions and bug reports. As stated at the time, we plan to deprecate and eventually remove the old interface (both the UI and the "API" it used). Our timeline is the following: 1. We'll make the new UI the default, and remove links to the old UI from the RIPE Atlas main menu, around 21 January. The old pages will still be accessible if one reaches them from somewhere else, such as a browser bookmark or hard-coded scripts. 2. Around the beginning of March, we'll remove the old pages from the system (/atlas/udm.html and related pages). This step will include the "deep links" that some of our users directly access to schedule and manage measurements from scripts (notably /atlas/*udm*.json). We'd like to encourage all of our users to switch to the new UI and API in the following weeks, if you haven't already done so. As always, we're happy to answer any questions or hear any feedback you might have. Regards, Robert Kisteleki, for the RIPE Atlas team

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