Re: [Pearg] [Maprg] Guidelines for Performing Safe Measurement on the Internet

[Lars Eggert <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

there is a ton of prior work in this space. See http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2015/netethics.php for starters. I am sure there are other PAM or IMC keynotes or presentations on this. It would be useful to build on this prior work.

Lars

On 2018-12-11, at 12:39, Iain Learmonth <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> -- This message was originally sent to the PEARG list, please send
> replies there.
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> I have just submitted a draft containing the start of some guidelines
> for performing safe measurement on the Internet. This should hopefully
> soon appear as:
>  draft-learmonth-pearg-safe-internet-measurement-00
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> For now, you can see the submitted text at:
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> https://people.torproject.org/~irl/volatile/draft-learmonth-pearg-safe-internet-measurement-00.txt
> 
> I am happy to receive any comments you may have. This draft draws on the
> Tor Research Safety Board's considerations when considering research on
> the Tor network. I have previously worked on large scale Internet
> measurement studies and my hope is to bring these two things together
> into a useful resource for others that would like to perform Internet
> measurements.
> 
> My Internet measurement background is primarily in functional testing as
> opposed to performance testing, so comments in that area would be
> particularly useful.
> 
> This is by no means a finished document I just wanted to get this out
> there and start collecting feedback as soon as I could.
> 
> Thanks,
> Iain.
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