[88attendees] RIPE Atlas probes at IETF 88

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <[e-mail]>]

If you don't know the RIPE Atlas probes, they are small boxes that you
connect to the network and which performs active measurements
<https://atlas.probe.net/>. The great things about these probes is
that you can run your very own measurements
<https://atlas.ripe.net/doc/udm>, leading to interesting/funny papers
like
<https://labs.ripe.net/Members/stephane_bortzmeyer/all-ip-addresses-are-equal-dot-zero-addresses-are-less-equal>.

More Atlas probes are always good, specially outside of Europe, where
the majority currently works. To help the distribution of probes,
there are people ("ambassadors") at many meetings, carrying Atlas
probes to distribute. In Vancouver, I'll be one of them.

If you are interested to host an Atlas probe to help mankind and the
Internet, please:

* check that you can host a probe: you need power-over-USB and
Ethernet cabling and IP addresses (RFC 1918 are OK) and to take care
of the box (some probes have been installed by forgotten and no longer
respond, which is sad). Check also if there is sufficient coverage or
not in your country/AS
<https://atlas.ripe.net/results/maps/network-coverage/>

* send me (or another ambassador) an email so that I know how many
probes to bring in sunny Bristih Columbia

Happy networking!