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Bebo
Is wondering about a meeting of PingER collaborators with possible funding from the Internet Archive or possibly others. Also possibly seeking other sources of funding for PingER activities.
It is time to re-raise and discuss the talk for the Internet Archive, and what we might expect from them and how much effort it is to prepare, document and make the data available to the Archive.
NUST (Updated 7/24/2019)
IPv6 host at NUST:
Wajahat has requested Hasan to install PingER on an IPv6 host at NUST, Saqib has contacted Hasan to tell him where to find and upload the code. There is not a host name for the MA yet. Hopefully, this will be available by next month's meeting.
- 7/24/2019 Les emailed Wajahat with a request for an update.
- At the meeting Wajahat had asked the student to contact Saqib and get the information on energizing IPv6. Saqib provided the information, but the student could not access the URL (apparently the URlLwas down). Wajahat was on leave and when he returned the internship had expired, so Wajahat is unsure what happened. Wajahat will start a new student next week and will set him on the IPv6 project.
Wajahat has 2 students, he will propose some PingER related projects to them. He says students do not appear to have much interest in Internet monitoring and getting funding is a major issue.
The recent move to revoke the special status of Jammu Kashmir may result in impacts on the Internet performance, so we are looking for PingER targets in JK.
UAF (University of Agriculture, Faisalabad)/GHZU (Updated 8/24/2019)
Saqib is undergoing his Mid Term Probationary Review at the University. 8/26/2019 Saqib says "It is in process."
Saqib plans to continue work on PingER monitoring for remote areas, in particular in Pakistan. He will use Android PingERs. This may partially tie into the Amity project.
He will also continue his work on Blockchain and plans to attend a Blockchain workshop in Guangzhou.
The 4th Call for Proposals for The Asi@Connect Project are now open. Saqib will submit a concept note in WP6 with Wajahat and Les as co-applicant.
- 8/25/2019: Emailed Saqib with a request for an update. Saqib replied hopefully in September.
Thailand, Charnsak (No update 7/23/2019)
MAs are down email sent to Charnsak 10/13/2019.
UNIMAS
MA is down, email sent asking for update 10/13/2019.
SLAC (Updated 8/26/2019)
The talk on PingER at the Silicon Valley Samsung HQ 7/17/2019, went well, see link below:
- Long term Monitoring of the World's Networks, Les Cottrell Invited talk at the Samsung HQ in Silicon Valley, Sept 17, 2019
Les and Bebo visited the Internet Archive (IA, see https://archive.org/) and initiated a discussion on archiving PingER data (i.e. a mirror for SLAC) at the IA and also giving a talk on PingER at the IA.
- The IA responded with information on using an IA Python library to archive the data at the IA. Les responded with interest but lack of resources until mid-September at the earliest. Also maybe after giving a talk at IA (see below) there might be interest in collaborating form some of the attendees.
- The IA also responded pointing to a form to fill out for a request to give a talk at the IA.
- Les filled out the form.
- Les sent an email to the IA to make sure they had received the form and asking if anything else is required.
So far:
Les and Bebo visited the Internet Archive (IA, see https://archive.org/) and initiated a discussion on archiving PingER data (i.e. a mirror for SLAC) at the IA and also giving a talk on PingER at the IA.
- The IA responded with information on using an IA Python library to archive the data at the IA. Les responded with interest but lack of resources until mid-September at the earliest. Also maybe after giving a talk at IA there might be interest in collaborating from some of the attendees.
- The IA also responded pointing to a form to fill out for a request to give a talk at the IA.
- Les filled out the form.
- Les sent an email to the IA to make sure they had received the form and asking if anything else is required.
- IA suggested September, given the China meeting, this was missed.
NUST (Updated 7/24/2019)
IPv6 host at NUST:
Wajahat has requested Hasan to install PingER on an IPv6 host at NUST, Saqib has contacted Hasan to tell him where to find and upload the code. There is not a host name for the MA yet. Hopefully, this will be available by next month's meeting.
- 7/24/2019 Les emailed Wajahat with a request for an update.
- At the meeting Wajahat had asked the student to contact Saqib and get the information on energizing IPv6. Saqib provided the information, but the student could not access the URL (apparently the URlLwas down). Wajahat was on leave and when he returned the internship had expired, so Wajahat is unsure what happened. Wajahat will start a new student next week and will set him on the IPv6 project.
Wajahat has 2 students, he will propose some PingER related projects to them. He says students do not appear to have much interest in Internet monitoring and getting funding is a major issue.
The recent move to revoke the special status of Jammu Kashmir may result in impacts on the Internet performance, so we are looking for PingER targets in JK.
UAF (University of Agriculture, Faisalabad)/GHZU (Updated 8/24/2019)
Saqib is undergoing his Mid Term Probationary Review at the University. 8/26/2019 Saqib says "It is in process."
Saqib plans to continue work on PingER monitoring for remote areas, in particular in Pakistan. He will use Android PingERs. This may partially tie into the Amity project.
He will also continue his work on Blockchain and plans to attend a Blockchain workshop in Guangzhou.
The 4th Call for Proposals for The Asi@Connect Project are now open. Saqib will submit a concept note in WP6 with Wajahat and Les as co-applicant.
- 8/25/2019: Emailed Saqib with a request for an update. Saqib replied hopefully in September.
Thailand, Charnsak (No update 7/23/2019)
MAs are down email sent to Charnsak 10/13/2019.
UNIMAS
MA is down, email sent asking for update 10/13/2019.
SLAC (Updated 8/26/2019)
The talk on PingER at the Silicon Valley Samsung HQ 7/17/2019, went well, see link below. We can use this talk for the Internet Archive.
- Long term Monitoring of the World's Networks, Les Cottrell Invited talk at the Samsung HQ in Silicon Valley, Sept 17, 2019
Les developed a tool to help in determining where targets are needed and some possibilities etc.
Iraq has had Internet problems dues to the disturbances see Iraq October 2019Trying to find some Kashmir hosts. Have 2 potentials. Will share the information with Wajahat and Amity. See Jammu Kashmir 2019.
Umar
Motion charts at https://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/pinger-metrics-motion-chart.html is failing it no longer displays the contents of the charts. Umar looked at the problem and suggested a solution. Les applied solution but did not fix in Chrome or Firefox. See PingER Metrics Motion Chart#October2019 for details.
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