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• Baraa is interested in monitoring other Jordanian hosts.  
• 7/3/2019: Requested update and offered to find some Jordanian hosts that are in Jordan and respond to pings. Baraa responded 7/6/2019 "we have nothing new. we tested several sites but it turns out they are using proxies. we are still looking for other sites that are effectively distributed across Jordan."  Les was also unable to find any using Google.
  • Baraa responded 7/7/2019: "We have nothing new. we tested several sites but it turns out they are using proxies.
    we are still looking for other sites that are effectively distributed across Jordan."
  • Also Baraa has just graduated from Princess Sumaya University with a Masters Degree (Major: Enterprise Systems Engineering) and is looking for Universities to continue his education (PhD.)
    • • Les sent email to Baraa aksing whether and how might Baraa's future affect the MA in Jordan.

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Turkey (No update 7/23/2019)

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• Amity MA continues to be frequently non pingable from SLAC, and hence no data is gathered. See plot below:
  • I have a crown job that daily checks if the Amity PingER MA is pingable and if so tries to gather the last 60 days of data from Amity.
  • Below is an example of recent Amity data:
    
    
    
• Given Topher does not have the resources to provide assistance, Amity needs to take a leadership role. 
• To facilitate mobile devices they would need to add the lat/long of the Android to each measurement.
  • And SLAC would need to extend PingER to accept the location lat/long data.
• Bebo suggested it would be most useful if Amity were to provide a stand-alone app on the Android app store that people could install at their will. 
  • This would also provide valuable experience to the Amity developer in terms of Android app development.
• Then PingER would need to know of the new MA so it could gather data from it.
• I believe Topher has a stash of Androids he could provide.
• Bebo will contact Amity to discuss futures, also see the recent history at the bottom under Old Information.
  
• Bebo mentioned that Amity work appears to ramp up before the conference in January, maybe they will get more active in the near future.

Adib  (Updated 7/22/2019)

•  Adib submitted to "Socio-economic Development Indices and Their Reflection on Internet Performance in ASEAN Countries" to Journal: Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal. They have requested a re-submission since it is over the limit of 10 pages. Adib re-submitted 7/22/2019.
  
  

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• From Les: WP6 mentions Pakistan, however, the examples are a bit of a stretch for PingER. Possibly deploying PingER MAs based on the Android in remote regions (NWFP, Gilgit, Balochistan, etc.) The difficulty will be getting collaborators in the remote regions, also probably a lot of travel to shake hands, give encouragement, assist, troubleshoot, etc. A challenge will be convincing the collaborators that they are getting something useful out of this. Maybe need to extend PingER to add some easy to use tools.  Another possibility is reviving the PingER MAs in Pakistan. Again, as Wajahat indicates, it is finding collaborators willing to install and manage the MAs. Some development may be needed to make the installation easier and maybe add remote management. Again an issue may be what do the collaborators stand to gain, and the longer-term continuation of the collaboration as people move on.
  

  WP4 talks about PerfSONAR which is monitoring. Providing training on PingER, the reverse traceroute servers might have some traction.  

   

  For both of these if one could install a mesh of MAs in Pakistan, including the reverse traceroute/ping servers (which are trivial to install on a web server, take minimal maintenance, and are much simpler than an MA) then one could address the problem of locating the lat/long of routers  by trilateration of ping response time. Note though getting the lat longs of end hosts is fairly well addressed, routers are usually identified as being located to the owner (e.g. all ESnet's routers on the US and Europe are defined as being located at Berkeley California (the HQ of ESnet)

Thailand, Charnsak (No update 7/23/2019)

UNIMAS

Need to add Umar Kalim to http://pinger.unimas.my/pinger/contact.php. From the 7/5/2018 meeting: Johari can't ssh into the server so he will go to it on Monday.  He will also upload the new UNIMAS PingER website next week.

Email from Johari 4/21/2019:  I am still very much interested in the project but I have to manage my time better. Will try to join the next meeting and probably get someone from my side to monitor the equipment and make use of the data collected

SLAC (Updated

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242019) 

Les believes most of the problems caused by the blocking of www-wanmon have been discovered and fixed. www-wanmon has been shut-down.

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