[request]: host a probe for v6 measurements

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Dear NANOG,

We are currently looking for volunteers in US with native IPv6 lines
to help us in our v6 measurement research.

<——------ Background
We are interested in measuring IPv6 performance from home. As part
of the LEONE project [1], we have developed measurement tests that
compare performance over IPv4 and IPv6 to: a) Dual-stacked websites
and b) YouTube content delivery network (in collaboration with Aalto
University). The tests comes bundled with a LEONE SamKnows probe.

[1] http://www.leone-project.eu

We currently have ~25 Vantage points (VP). Each VP runs a Leone
SamKnows probe. The google map [2] shows where these probes are
deployed. As you can see the VP sample is too small (nothing in
North America)

[2] http://goo.gl/TL4woP

<——------ Request:
If you receive native IPv6 at home (or know someone who does), it
would be great if you can host a LEONE SamKnows probe for us. The
probe will run standard SamKnows tests [3] and our IPv6 tests.

[3] https://www.samknows.com/tests-and-metrics

We prefer measuring from home networks, but are also open to
deploying probes within research/academic networks, business
lines, or operators labs.

<-------- Action:
Let me know if you’re interested, and I can share details on how to
get the probe to you. We only have limited number of LEONE SamKnows
probes. We will process the requests on first come first serve basis.

<-------- Research Impact.
a) Measuring YouTube from Dual-Stacked Hosts
  Saba Ahsan, Vaibhav Bajpai, Jörg Ott, Jürgen Schönwälder
  Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM 2015),
  New York, March 2015.

b) Measuring TCP Connection Establishment Times of Dual-Stacked Web Services
  Vaibhav Bajpai, Jürgen Schönwälder
  9th International Conference on Network and Service Management, (CNSM 2013)
  Zürich, October 2013.

8<——-- Thanks.
Thank you so much for helping us in our research activity.

Best, Vaibhav

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We've seen 3 or 4 recent presentations of some new measurement project
that requires deploying yet another set of dedicated probes. While I'm
generally supportive of measurement attempts, I'll ask the same question
that was asked then:

Why not use RIPE Atlas?

https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/udm/

Wes George

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Why not use RIPE Atlas?
RIPE Atlas docs | Starting your own Measurements (User-defined Measurements) | Docs

usually it is because you can not put your own code in it for the
measures you want to make.

randy

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We've seen 3 or 4 recent presentations of some new measurement project
that requires deploying yet another set of dedicated probes. While I'm
generally supportive of measurement attempts, I'll ask the same question
that was asked then:

The probes we are shipping are ‘SamKnows' probes. We are not forking a
new measurement platform. These probes will be part of SamKnows. I called
them LEONE SamKnows probes because in addition to standard SamKnows tests
they are also going to run our v6 tests.

Why not use RIPE Atlas?
RIPE Atlas docs | Starting your own Measurements (User-defined Measurements) | Docs

As Randy pointed out, the current built-in set of RIPE Atlas measurement
tools do not allow us to make measurements we want to make. We want to
measure connect times and achievable throughput over an established TCP
connection to live dual-stacked websites and YouTube CDNs. This requires
additional tests to be baked in the platform.

In efforts to get this accepted, I presented one of ours tests at the
RIPE66 meeting in 2013 and received positive feedback [1]. We are working
with them to get things accepted.

[2] Measuring the Effectiveness of Happy Eyeballs
  IPv6 Working Group, RIPE66
  Dublin, May 2013.
  Archives | RIPE 66

Wes George

Best, Vaibhav

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Dear NANOG,

[...]

We are currently looking for volunteers in US with native IPv6 lines
to help us in our v6 measurement research.

Thanks to you, we have shipped 15 probes to North America (some of which
are already starting to come up online). Here [1] is the current
situation of our SamKnows deployment.

[1] http://goo.gl/E1DIZr

We still have probes that we can ship out. If you happen to receive native v6
connectivity (residential or otherwise) irrespective of your location and would
like to help us out, get in touch with us.

Thank you so much!

Best, Vaibhav