[mat-wg] [atlas] Proposal: Measure well-known CDNs,[CDN-HTTP]

On 17/12/2022 00:19, Barry Raveendran Greene wrote:
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>> On Dec 16, 2022, at 23:29, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> wrote:
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>> There is a larger problem here, a more strategic one: such a feature
>> would contribute to the centralisation of the Internet, which is
>> already too important. Tagging some targets are "important" and
>> "worthy of measurements" would mean that we consider some HTTP servers
>> to be more useful than others. That would be a bad message from RIPE.
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> We’ve come full circle - we started with centralized PTTs - moved to a decentralized ASN/Paul Baran model - now Re-centralized based on marketing domination.
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> +1 with Stephane’s observation. The selection of who to measure is a statement.

+1

Also, while the data would be useful, I don't think the role of the ripe 
ncc is to grade commercial services. Let other companies or individual 
researchers do that.