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He has written a very nice paper on blockchain and its potential use for PingER storage, reviewed by Les and Bebo (also see above under Bebo).
Pinger.gzhu.edu.cn MA is down since November due to a possible security issue. Saqib recommends giving up, i.e. Disable it. It has been disabled.
IPv6 node in Beijing is still down. Hope to be restored in 2 -3 weeks (as of 3/28/2018). up and running but not available from outside China.
Saqib has joined the team comparing icmp/ping vs TCP for both IPv4 and IPv6, Umar whas has sent instructions.
PingER at SLAC
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