Christopher Wolff just mooed:
I respect your approach, letting us know about your bandwidth study and what each network operator can expect. The important part is that we get the opportunity to either opt-out, or find out a way to "opt-in" and help you acquire more information to complete your research.
All of our hosts will have http and finger servers running on them that send a brief text file describing what's going on and how to avoid it. Where we can, the ping hosts will have descriptive names, but we can't arrange that everywhere. Similarly, where possible, we're creating DNS TXT records that describe the experiments. I'd love to hear other suggestions for preemptive "this is what's going on" indications. I actually really like the Digital Isle "put a message in the ICMP messages" approach, since it seems to have at least gotten the message through in one occasion. Other ideas welcome; feel free to send to me and I'll summarize to the list. -Dave -- work: dga@lcs.mit.edu me: dga@pobox.com MIT Laboratory for Computer Science http://www.angio.net/