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Call for applications for TMA Shadow PC
by Bajpai, Vaibhav 19 Dec '17

19 Dec '17

Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA Conference 2018) June 26-29, 2018, Vienna, Austria http://tma.ifip.org/2018/ TMA 2018 Shadow PC ================== To provide an educational experience by introducing students to a review process and to subsequently train the next generation of program committee (PC) members, the TMA 2018 TPC would like to make submitted papers available to the shadow PC. Shadow PCs allow students and others interested in future PC service to read submitted papers and go through the reviewing process, ultimately arriving at a shadow conference program. This opportunity allows future PC members to learn first-hand about the peer-review process and gain experience as a reviewer. The shadow PC process is run on a different system and the shadow PC reviewers will not have any access to the real reviews, the names of the real reviewers, or any other data such as relative rankings. Shadow PC reviewers will have to abide by the same rules and restrictions applicable to regular PC members. This includes, but is not limited to, rules against discussing the papers outside of the PC context, or using in any way results from reviewed papers before such papers have been published. Delegated reviews (i.e., external reviews) are not allowed for the shadow PC. A submitted paper is made available to the shadow PC by default; authors will have the opportunity to opt-out during the paper submission process. Shadow reviews for papers that are reviewed by the shadow PC will be sent out after the actual TMA’18 review process. Authors who have participated in previous shadow PCs have found the additional reviews helpful; however, these reviews will have no bearing on acceptance to the technical program. You can directly contribute to a successful shadow PC and benefit from the additional feedback on your submission by making your paper available to the shadow PC with no extra overhead. Simply indicate your choice in the HotCrp submission site. Shadow PC Chairs (contact: shadow-tma18(a)cm.in.tum.de) -- Vaibhav Bajpai (Technische Universität München) -- Andra Lutu (Simula Research Laboratory) -- Oliver Hohlfeld (RWTH Aachen University) Call for Applications ===================== Following a successful model used at other premier technical conferences such as SIGCOMM, CoNext, EuroSys, NSDI, and IMC, TMA will be organizing its first Shadow Program Committee in 2018. The Shadow PC will consist of PhD students, early-career academics, and junior researchers and will provide reviews on a subset of submissions to the conference. Paper authors can choose to opt-out for shadow reviews. The TMA Shadow PC will function much like an independent version of the “Senior” PC, including holding an in-person or online PC meeting and deciding the program of papers it would have selected (note that only authors will learn the “shadow” fate of their own papers, which will have no impact on the actual TMA PC process). Shadow PC members will be expected to review a full load of 5-10 papers (depending on the number of submissions selected for the Shadow PC process) on time and participate in online discussion, as well as follow the ethical standards of peer review. Shadow PC members will also be required to do a small amount of reading about the PC process. Shadow PC members must respect the anonymity of the review process and not share which papers they have reviewed or solicit sub-reviews. Shadow PC members who do not adhere to the review deadlines will be excluded from the process. Shadow PC reviews will be made available (anonymized) to the authors. The Shadow PC meeting will likely be held on March 28 in Berlin co-located with PAM (details TBD). Shadow PC members should attend in-person or online (some travel grants will be available to support attendance). Shadow PC members will not attend the Senior PC meeting, and the Shadow PC program acceptance decisions will not be made available publicly. However, some PC members might attend the shadow PC meeting to help with the discussions. If you are interested in participating, please apply by uploading your application material to http://hotcrp.cm.in.tum.de/shadow-tpc-tma18 submission site by Jan 15th, 2018, Midnight Pacific time. Your application should consist of a single PDF file which includes a CV and a brief (0.25-1 pg) motivation statement explaining why you’d like to participate in the shadow PC. Be sure to include your name, position/year of study, areas of research experience, publications (feel free to include tech reports, papers under submission/preparation, and unreviewed manuscripts, as long as you indicate them as such) or past reviewing experience (ok to have none). Important Dates =============== Deadline to Apply for Shadow PC: Jan 15, 2018 Notification of Acceptance to Shadow PC: Feb 01, 2018 Shadow Review Period: Feb 17, 2018 - Mar 21, 2018 Shadow Discussion Period: Mar 21, 2018 - Mar 27, 2018 Shadow PC Meeting: Mar 28, 2018 -- Vaibhav -------------------------- Vaibhav Bajpai www.vaibhavbajpai.com Postdoctoral Researcher TU Munich, Germany --------------------------

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DMARC Solution Applied to this Mailing List
by Adam Castle 18 Dec '17

18 Dec '17

Dear Working Group, As more email providers enable Domain Message Authentication Reporting & Conformance (DMARC), some people find they can no longer receive emails from the mailing lists they are subscribed to. We have deployed a Mailman setting change to address this problem. After consultation with the RIPE Working Group Chairs, we have enabled the DMARC "Munge From" setting on all RIPE mailing lists. This means that if your email service provider has DMARC enabled, you will continue to receive all emails sent to this mailing list, but the "From" part of the header will change. If you don't have DMARC enabled, you won't see any change to the emails you receive from this mailing list. You can find more information about how we have been handling DMARC in the following RIPE Labs articles: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/adam_castle/dmarc-and-the-ripe-ncc https://labs.ripe.net/Members/adam_castle/ripe-mailing-lists-and-dmarc To ensure all working group participants are aware of the changes, I am sending this mail to all working groups. If you have any questions or encounter any issues on this mailing list, please let me know. Many thanks. Adam Castle Web Services Manager RIPE NCC

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New on RIPE Labs: Impressions from the Internet Measurement Conference 2017
by Mirjam Kuehne 10 Nov '17

10 Nov '17

Dear colleagues, This year's Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) was held in London from 1 - 3 November. In this article on RIPE Labs we highlight some of the presented work that we think is interesting and that the RIPE community might find useful. https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/impressions-from-the-internet-measu… Kind regards, Mirjam Kühne RIPE NCC

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New on RIPE Labs: Current Network Connectivity from Puerto Rico
by Mirjam Kuehne 05 Oct '17

05 Oct '17

Dear colleagues, Hurricanes Irma and Maria struck massive damage across the Caribbean this year. In disaster recovery situations, the Internet is critical communications infrastructure. In this new RIPE Labs article, we look at the observable network effects on Puerto Rico in the aftermath of hurricane Maria: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/stephen_strowes/observable-network-connectivi… Kind regards, Mirjam Kuhne RIPE NCC

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New on RIPE Labs: Celebrating 10, 000 Active RIPE Atlas Probes
by Mirjam Kuehne 29 Sep '17

29 Sep '17

Dear colleagues, In August 2017, just short of seven years after RIPE Atlas was launched, the number of connected RIPE Atlas probes hit 10,000. That’s a lot of probes and it marks a big moment for the RIPE Atlas project. You can find some more details and an overview of recent developments on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alun_davies/celebrating-10000-active-ripe-atl… Kind regards, Mirjam Kuhne RIPE NCC

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New RIPE Labs article on RIPE Atlas v3 Anchors
by Alun Davies 28 Sep '17

28 Sep '17

Dear colleagues, In this RIPE Labs article the RIPE NCC looks into hardware specifications and logistics for the next generation of RIPE Atlas anchors: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alun_davies/introducing-ripe-atlas-v3-anchors Best regards, Alun Davies RIPE NCC

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New on RIPE Labs: Measuring your Web Server Reachability with TCP Ping
by Mirjam Kuehne 27 Sep '17

27 Sep '17

Dear colleagues, HTTP measurements from RIPE Atlas probes are only possible towards RIPE Atlas anchors. However, when it comes to measuring the connectivity and latency of web servers on the network level, an alternative exists, which we call TCP Ping: a traceroute with special options that mimic the TCP handshake that takes place when an HTTP connection is established. In this RIPE Labs article we compare the results of large scale HTTP and TCP Ping measurements: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/wilhelm/measuring-your-web-server-reachabilit… Kind regards, Mirjam Kuhne RIPE NCC

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Draft agenda for MAT-WG @ RIPE 75
by Nina Bargisen 13 Sep '17

13 Sep '17

Hello All, This is the draft agenda for the Measurement, Analysis and Tools Working Group session at RIPE75: A. Introduction: Welcome, Scribe, Jabber, Agenda - 5 min B. Introduction of Brian Trammel - 5 min C. Comparing a set of latency measurements - Agustin Formoso - 20 min D. A new almost reliable UDP protocol - Nuno M. Garcia - 25 min E. Country Reports and OpenIPMap - RipeNCC - 30 min F. Reflections and Saying bye - Christian Kaufmann - 5 min Z. AOB Timings are approximate:-) The session will take place at 09:00 local time on Tuesday 24th September. See you in Dubai! Nina and CK MAT WG Chairs

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Call for MAT CoChair candidates
by ckaufman 12 Sep '17

12 Sep '17

Dear MAT WG, the time has come to make my “Chair” vacant and bring some fresh blood into the MAT WG:-) As you might remember I am one of original three MAT WG CoChairs since the MAT was rechartered out of the original Test Traffic WG at RIPE60 in Prague. Originally I was chairing together with Ian Meikle and Richard Barnes which left over the years and where eventually succeeded by Nina Bargisen. (Job description for interested Candidates:-)) I have done the job now for 7,5 years prepared the session, chaired the session, answered emails, welcomed new attendees at RIPE Meetings, represented the WG at ENOG and sometimes other conferences, had countless conversation with Daniel, Robert, Kaveh and of course Vesna about RIPE Atlas and the Anchors and about further and future collaboration. Attended RIPE Hackathons. Participated in the PDP review and in the WG collective as your representative, etc. These are all tasks a MAT WG CoChair does do to one or the other degree, and which you should be interested in if you apply for it. In the last years we came up with an election process which was approved by you and used when we elected Nina and which I want to use now for replacing me. We will go through the process as described below and ideally present the new WG CoChair at the next WG Session in Dubai. After the Dubai Meeting I will then officially step down. The process: 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 As a remainder our Charter and Website can be found at: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/groups/wg/mat <https://www.ripe.net/ripe/groups/wg/mat> and the official Job description at: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-542 <https://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-542> Please feel free to nominate yourself if you are interested or shanghai others ( with their approval:-)) till the 11th September. Thx a lot and it was a pleasure to serve you. Christian Kaufmann MAT WG Co-Chair PS: I want to thank the RIPE NCC for their support over all the years, without them there would be no MAT WG, especially Mark Dranse who inspired me to start this journey, Daniel for starting RIPE Atlas and his vision, Rob B. for his wisdom as RIPE Chair, Robert and Kaveh for their never ending support and input, Vesna for her spirit and energy and for bringing so many people together, Amanda for the minutes and Hans Petter for doing an excellent job as a WG Chair Dompteur. And last but not least Nina for continuing the WG and her support in the last years.

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New on RIPE Labs: Evaluation of Hurricane Harvey's Effects on the Internet's Edge
by Mirjam Kuehne 08 Sep '17

08 Sep '17

Dear colleagues, In this new article on RIPE Labs, John Heidemann, researcher at USC/ISI, evaluates the effects of Hurricane Harvey and examines what outages in edge networks can say about damage on the ground. https://labs.ripe.net/Members/john_heidemann/evaluation-of-hurricane-harvey… Kind regards, Mirjam Kuhne RIPE NCC

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