high v6 user-base, less atlas probes

Bajpai, Vaibhav vaibhav.bajpai at tum.de
Sun Jan 29 14:58:37 CET 2017


> On 28. Jan 2017, at 14:54, Jeroen Massar <jeroen at massar.ch> wrote:
> 
> On 2017-01-28 13:51, Bajpai, Vaibhav wrote:
> 
>> Here is a list of top 20 countries that have a large v6 user-base [*] but are
>> underrepresented by RIPE Atlas due to less number of deployed dual-stacked
>> probes. Consider hosting a dual-stacked probe in these regions to help remove
>> the region-based bias that v6 studies using RIPE Atlas may otherwise have:
>> 
>> Full paper available here: http://goo.gl/hWGveA (§4)
>> 
>>      +----+------------+-----------|
>>      | CC | v6 Users   | v6 Probes |
>> |-----+----+------------+-----------|
>> |  01 | BE | 56.48 %    | 2.82  %   |
>> |  02 | LU | 35.23 %    | 0.61  %   |
>> |  03 | GR | 33.66 %    | 1.39  %   |
>> |  04 | CH | 33.48 %    | 3.82  %   |
> 
> Would be useful to detail which ASNs these users are supposed to live in
> and state if that ASN has probes or not...
> 
> Or otherwise said: instead of doing per-country, you might just want to
> single out the ASNs where you are "missing" probes…

Yes, paper (see §5) touches on this bit. 

Here is the complete list of _dual-stacked_ RIPE Atlas probes by ASN:
http://goo.gl/bR5JEd.

In order to redo the delta comparison I would need v6 user population
numbers by ASN; I am not sure if this data is publicly available.

-- Vaibhav

> One approach, especially in Europe and the rest of RIPE NCC country: ask
> every LIR / ASN to run at least a probe (and not from their datacenter,
> but from a enduser connection ;) )
> 

> Greets,
> Jeroen

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Vaibhav Bajpai
www.vaibhavbajpai.com

Postdoctoral Researcher
TU Munich, Germany
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