I see other interesting topic. What is a balance in between: "Number of probes on-line" and "geographic and network dispersion" Let me to show a little example. As ambassador living in the central Europe, but traveling to relative exotic destinations I may have two different strategies: 1) Hand over probes within the central Europe where I have close links to my partners and can help them to keep probes on-line. 2) Act as a mule spreading probes in the exotic destinations to raise the coverage. But I can't support for probes physically placed to Solomon Islands or Namibia. And I know those people less than my colleagues in central Europe. Current policy prefers behavior (1), but I'm not sure if more probes within The Czech republic really contributes to the RIPE Atlas project. We can have probe in every village, but ... Michal