On 22 Jan 2015, at 15:27, George, Wes <wesley.george@twcable.com> wrote:
We've seen 3 or 4 recent presentations of some new measurement project that requires deploying yet another set of dedicated probes. While I'm generally supportive of measurement attempts, I'll ask the same question that was asked then:
The probes we are shipping are ‘SamKnows' probes. We are not forking a new measurement platform. These probes will be part of SamKnows. I called them LEONE SamKnows probes because in addition to standard SamKnows tests they are also going to run our v6 tests.
Why not use RIPE Atlas? https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/udm
As Randy pointed out, the current built-in set of RIPE Atlas measurement tools do not allow us to make measurements we want to make. We want to measure connect times and achievable throughput over an established TCP connection to live dual-stacked websites and YouTube CDNs. This requires additional tests to be baked in the platform. In efforts to get this accepted, I presented one of ours tests at the RIPE66 meeting in 2013 and received positive feedback [1]. We are working with them to get things accepted. [2] Measuring the Effectiveness of Happy Eyeballs IPv6 Working Group, RIPE66 Dublin, May 2013. https://ripe66.ripe.net/archives/video/1208
Wes George
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