Hello, 30M more from France, all our support for your research Best regards, Laurent On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 12:02 AM Mohan, Nitinder <nitinder.mohan@helsinki.fi<mailto:nitinder.mohan@helsinki.fi>> wrote: Dear RIPE community, I hope you are all safe and sound. I am a Postdoctoral fellow at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. We are currently working on an ongoing research project which aims to analyze the availability and reachability of cloud data centers globally. The first work of our work will appear in ACM HotNets 2020 titled "Pruning Edge Research with Latency Shears" (http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2020/program.html). We are currently preparing the camera-ready version of the paper and will share it with the community by hosting it (and the associated dataset) publicly soon. We are currently planing to submit the second leg of our work to a conference with submission deadline a month. In order to complete all set of measurements for required analysis, we are scheduling very large-scale measurements over the platform which has burned through almost all our credits and left us in need. I have always found the RIPE Atlas community to be helpful and generous towards research and I am hoping that you could support our research by donating us some of your spare credits. Your help will be highly appreciated. My RIPE account is nitinder.mohan@helsinki.fi<mailto:nitinder.mohan@helsinki.fi> Thanks and Regards Nitinder Mohan Postdoctoral Fellow Technical University of Munich, Germany https://www.nitindermohan.com/

And another 8 million from me, good luck! Best, -Michael __________________ Michael J. Oghia | Advocacy & Engagement Manager Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD <https://gfmd.info>) Belgrade, Serbia (UTC+2) | Twitter <https://www.twitter.com/MikeOghia> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeoghia> GPG: E95D 2127 0D45 77D3 4D43 4D5A E3BA 6F23 301D 7082 On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 12:19 AM Daniel AJ Sokolov < listclient@sokolov.eu.org> wrote:

Sent you 42 million credits.

Best wishes from heise.de Daniel AJ

On 2020-09-23 at 3:02 p.m., Mohan, Nitinder wrote:

...

Dear RIPE community,

I hope you are all safe and sound.

I am a Postdoctoral fellow at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. We are currently working on an ongoing research project which aims to analyze the availability and reachability of cloud data centers globally. The first work of our work will appear in ACM HotNets 2020 titled "Pruning Edge Research with Latency Shears" ( http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2020/program.html). We are currently preparing the camera-ready version of the paper and will share it with the community by hosting it (and the associated dataset) publicly soon.

We are currently planing to submit the second leg of our work to a conference with submission deadline a month. In order to complete all set of measurements for required analysis, we are scheduling very large-scale measurements over the platform which has burned through almost all our credits and left us in need. I have always found the RIPE Atlas community to be helpful and generous towards research and I am hoping that you could support our research by donating us some of your spare credits. Your help will be highly appreciated.

My RIPE account is nitinder.mohan@helsinki.fi

Thanks and Regards

Nitinder Mohan

Postdoctoral Fellow

Technical University of Munich, Germany

<http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/nmohan/>https://www.nitindermohan.com/

Very cool. I top that of with 74M. Looking forward to the results!

Am 24.09.2020 um 10:21 schrieb Gerdriaan Mulder <ripe@moeilijklastig.nl>:

Sent 10 million as well. Enjoy!

On 24/09/2020 00:02, Mohan, Nitinder wrote:

...

Dear RIPE community,

I hope you are all safe and sound.

I am a Postdoctoral fellow at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. We are currently working on an ongoing research project which aims to analyze the availability and reachability of cloud data centers globally. The first work of our work will appear in ACM HotNets 2020 titled "Pruning Edge Research with Latency Shears" (http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2020/program.html). We are currently preparing the camera-ready version of the paper and will share it with the community by hosting it (and the associated dataset) publicly soon.

We are currently planing to submit the second leg of our work to a conference with submission deadline a month. In order to complete all set of measurements for required analysis, we are scheduling very large-scale measurements over the platform which has burned through almost all our credits and left us in need. I have always found the RIPE Atlas community to be helpful and generous towards research and I am hoping that you could support our research by donating us some of your spare credits. Your help will be highly appreciated.

My RIPE account is nitinder.mohan@helsinki.fi

Thanks and Regards

Nitinder Mohan

Postdoctoral Fellow

Technical University of Munich, Germany

<http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/nmohan/>https://www.nitindermohan.com/

Dear RIPE community, I hope you are all safe and sound. This email is a follow-up to our request for Atlas credits back in September 2020. Following our request, we received an overwhelming response from the community to assist our research by transferring us credits and giving us best wishes for project completion. Today, I am elated to let you all know that we have successfully concluded our project and I would be happy to share the results with all of you. Our project focused on analyzing the availability and reachability of cloud datacenters across the globe. The motivation for our work stemmed from the lack of any recently conducted global cloud measurement study which can be used for assessing the growth of cloud networks in the past decade. We feel that such an impartial study is not only useful for researchers working in domains such as edge computing, 5G/6G, cloud computing etc. but can also be valuable for folks from industry and for the general public. Back in 2019 we launched our cloud reachability study, targeting 10 major cloud operators (189 compute cloud regions) across the globe. We collected ICMP and TCP pings along with Traceroutes periodically over the Atlas platform. The results from this project has been successfully published in top-tier venues such as ACM HotNets 2020, The Web Conference (WWW) 2021 and IFIP Networking 2021. We release all collected dataset and associated code for public and community use. You can browse/play with our results learn more about the project objectives and download our datasets from here: https://cloudreachability.github.io/ I would like to thank the RIPE community for being so supportive to our (and generally to) research endeavours. If you have any questions regarding our work, I will be very happy to answer them. Thanks and Regards Nitinder Mohan Postdoctoral Fellow Technical University Munich (TUM) https://www.nitindermohan.com/ From: ripe-atlas <ripe-atlas-bounces@ripe.net> On Behalf Of Mohan, Nitinder Sent: 23 September 2020 23:02 To: ripe-atlas@ripe.net Subject: [atlas] Request for credits for research   Dear RIPE community,   I hope you are all safe and sound.   I am a Postdoctoral fellow at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. We are currently working on an ongoing research project which aims to analyze the availability and reachability of cloud data centers globally. The first work of our work will appear in ACM HotNets 2020 titled "Pruning Edge Research with Latency Shears" (http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2020/program.html). We are currently preparing the camera-ready version of the paper and will share it with the community by hosting it (and the associated dataset) publicly soon.   We are currently planing to submit the second leg of our work to a conference with submission deadline a month. In order to complete all set of measurements for required analysis, we are scheduling very large-scale measurements over the platform which has burned through almost all our credits and left us in need. I have always found the RIPE Atlas community to be helpful and generous towards research and I am hoping that you could support our research by donating us some of your spare credits. Your help will be highly appreciated.   My RIPE account is nitinder.mohan@helsinki.fi   Thanks and Regards   Nitinder Mohan Postdoctoral Fellow Technical University of Munich, Germany https://www.nitindermohan.com/

Hi Nitinder, Thank you so much for following up with us, this is great! It sets a good example as well for how our contributions help enable research such as yours, so it's much appreciated. Keep up the good work! Best, -Michael On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 11:20 AM Nitinder Mohan <mohan@in.tum.de> wrote:

Dear RIPE community,

I hope you are all safe and sound.

This email is a follow-up to our request for Atlas credits back in September 2020. Following our request, we received an overwhelming response from the community to assist our research by transferring us credits and giving us best wishes for project completion. Today, I am elated to let you all know that we have successfully concluded our project and I would be happy to share the results with all of you.

Our project focused on analyzing the availability and reachability of cloud datacenters across the globe. The motivation for our work stemmed from the lack of any recently conducted global cloud measurement study which can be used for assessing the growth of cloud networks in the past decade. We feel that such an impartial study is not only useful for researchers working in domains such as edge computing, 5G/6G, cloud computing etc. but can also be valuable for folks from industry and for the general public.

Back in 2019 we launched our cloud reachability study, targeting 10 major cloud operators (189 compute cloud regions) across the globe. We collected ICMP and TCP pings along with Traceroutes periodically over the Atlas platform. The results from this project has been successfully published in top-tier venues such as ACM HotNets 2020, The Web Conference (WWW) 2021 and IFIP Networking 2021. We release all collected dataset and associated code for public and community use. You can browse/play with our results learn more about the project objectives and download our datasets from here: https://cloudreachability.github.io/

I would like to thank the RIPE community for being so supportive to our (and generally to) research endeavours. If you have any questions regarding our work, I will be very happy to answer them.

Thanks and Regards

Nitinder Mohan Postdoctoral Fellow Technical University Munich (TUM) https://www.nitindermohan.com/

*From:* ripe-atlas <ripe-atlas-bounces@ripe.net> *On Behalf Of *Mohan, Nitinder *Sent:* 23 September 2020 23:02 *To:* ripe-atlas@ripe.net *Subject:* [atlas] Request for credits for research

Dear RIPE community,

I hope you are all safe and sound.

I am a Postdoctoral fellow at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. We are currently working on an ongoing research project which aims to analyze the availability and reachability of cloud data centers globally. The first work of our work will appear in ACM HotNets 2020 titled "Pruning Edge Research with Latency Shears" ( http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2020/program.html). We are currently preparing the camera-ready version of the paper and will share it with the community by hosting it (and the associated dataset) publicly soon.

We are currently planing to submit the second leg of our work to a conference with submission deadline a month. In order to complete all set of measurements for required analysis, we are scheduling very large-scale measurements over the platform which has burned through almost all our credits and left us in need. I have always found the RIPE Atlas community to be helpful and generous towards research and I am hoping that you could support our research by donating us some of your spare credits. Your help will be highly appreciated.

My RIPE account is nitinder.mohan@helsinki.fi

Thanks and Regards

Nitinder Mohan

Postdoctoral Fellow

Technical University of Munich, Germany

https://www.nitindermohan.com/

It's our pleasure Nitinder, just let us know if you need more. And good luck! Best, -Michael On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 2:14 PM Mohan, Nitinder <nitinder.mohan@helsinki.fi> wrote:

Hi everyone,

Thanks all for your kind donations. Hopefully, we have accumulated enough credits to complete all our intended measurements.

As promised, we will surely report the results and datasets of our research.

Best Regards

Nitinder Mohan

Postdoctoral Fellow

Technical University of Munich, Germany

<http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/nmohan/>https://www.nitindermohan.com/

------------------------------ *From:* Mohan, Nitinder <nitinder.mohan@helsinki.fi> *Sent:* Thursday, September 24, 2020 1:02 AM *To:* ripe-atlas@ripe.net <ripe-atlas@ripe.net> *Subject:* Request for credits for research

Dear RIPE community,

I hope you are all safe and sound.

I am a Postdoctoral fellow at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. We are currently working on an ongoing research project which aims to analyze the availability and reachability of cloud data centers globally. The first work of our work will appear in ACM HotNets 2020 titled "Pruning Edge Research with Latency Shears" ( http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2020/program.html). We are currently preparing the camera-ready version of the paper and will share it with the community by hosting it (and the associated dataset) publicly soon.

We are currently planing to submit the second leg of our work to a conference with submission deadline a month. In order to complete all set of measurements for required analysis, we are scheduling very large-scale measurements over the platform which has burned through almost all our credits and left us in need. I have always found the RIPE Atlas community to be helpful and generous towards research and I am hoping that you could support our research by donating us some of your spare credits. Your help will be highly appreciated.

My RIPE account is nitinder.mohan@helsinki.fi

Thanks and Regards

Nitinder Mohan

Postdoctoral Fellow

Technical University of Munich, Germany

<http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/nmohan/>https://www.nitindermohan.com/