Hey all,
As a follow-up to Mikael's point in AOB at the MAT meeting today (that there are lots of statistics already being kept by hosts, e.g., in TCP stacks):
I did a presentation at the IEPG back at the Beijing IETF about the idea of standardizing a "Network Measurement Reporting" language, so that things like ping and traceroute could share their results with the rest of the Internet.
It's long enough ago that I don't remember precisely what the feedback was. But no further work got done, so it probably wasn't that positive :)
Nonetheless, I continue to think that collecting ambient measurement data is a really interesting idea, so it would be cool to hear what others here think.
Cheers,
--Richard