Re: Measuring the Internet: When History Means Measurement

Dear nethistory,
public-webhistory &
public-informationarchitecture,



Thank you for your "terms of references" (how you use the term "outage" and
information sources deserve to notice).

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Regard,
Guntur Wiseno Putra

Pada Minggu, 02 Februari 2020, Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ietf.occnc.com>
menulis:

> Good luck with that.
>
> ISPs have always been notoriously somewhat secretive about their
> network topology, even more secretive about the capacity of their
> network, and extremely secretive about the actual traffic loads.
>
> Attempts to document all Internet outages (you wrote shutdowns - wrong
> word) over time may prove even more difficult.  Small outages are a
> constant occurance and not even worth noting.  Routing errors can be
> vexing for end customers because they are persistent and can be missed
> by ISPs (and can be caused by ISP misconfiguration).  Any such outage
> is often attributed to just the organization that reported the outage
> or identified the problem even though the impact might have been
> widespread.  These days there are also IPv4 vs IPv6 outages (an outage
> exists for one but not the other) often due to a routing error.
>
> There was good information collected on the NSFNET when that was a
> thing and somewhat central to most of the Internet, but that is now
> ancient history (and not a complete look at the Internet even back
> then).  Check with Merit for archives and the IMR.  Also check CAIDA
> to see what they have.  You may find useful information on routes
> going away from the route view servers and possibly archives.  Some of
> the regional NOGs or NICs produce route churn graphs and may have
> archives.  There are many sources of information and many
> methodologies for collecting and analyzing it.
>
> As the number of ISPs grows the difficulty in determining level of
> network traffic becomes increasingly intractable.  When routes go away
> (or harder to detect blackhole or loop) it is hard to know how much
> traffic is affected.  Not all prefix outages are equally important and
> the number of addresses within the prefix is a poor estimator (almost
> useless for IPv6 with many ISPs freely handing out /48s).
>
> Whenever you talk about outages, you need to quantify the extent of
> the outage.  Small outages are a constant.  You have to decide what is
> a big enough outage to count as significant and then even harder you
> have to decide on a way to measure extent of outages.
>
> Curtis
>
>
> In message <CAKi_AEuZB-ekP+UAiz+f7ZJcGPss5dXFsY0HgccdPyWtVUAgj
> w@mail.gmail.com>
> Guntur Wiseno Putra writes:
> >
> > Dear nethistory,
> > public-webhistory &
> > public-informationarchitecture
> >
> >
> > * Measuring the Internet: When History Means Measurement
> >
> > It is about a "reliable place to find answers to questions about the
> > current state of the Internet... (but at the same time it is about
> > attempting historical values as it is also about a)... single site or
> tool
> > that brings together the multiple measures required to understand the
> > Internet=E2=80=99s evolution and health.
> >
> > ..... A Web-based dashboard will present these trends and contextualize
> > indicators within an overall narrative of Internet evolution and
> promotion
> > of the Internet way of networking...".
> >
> >
> > It is part of the 2020 Internet Society Action Plan Projects
> >
> > https://www.internetsociety.org/issues/measurement/
> >
> >
> > Regard,
> > Guntur Wiseno Putra
>