[ncc-services-wg] Planned Test Traffic Measurements Service Closure

Dear colleagues,

The RIPE NCC’s Test Traffic Measurements (TTM) Service will be
decommissioned at the end of June 2014.

Most of the functionality offered by TTM is available as part of RIPE
Atlas and we encourage you to take advantage of this service:
https://atlas.ripe.net

Handover of Responsibility of TTM Machines

We will contact the individual TTM hosts during June to arrange the
handover of responsibility for the remaining TTM systems. Many hosts
asked us about the possibilities to keep the old hardware around as a
stand-alone NTP server. We have a RIPE Labs article detailing the
options to transition your TTM system to a dedicated NTP server. The
article is available here:

https://labs.ripe.net/Members/colin_petrie/how-to-convert-your-ttm-box-to-a-stratum-1-ntp-server

Availability of TTM Data

  - No new data will be collected via TTM once decommissioned
  - Current interface for TTM data visualisations will be available
until at least the end of 2014
  - Raw data from TTM measurements will be downloadable indefinitely

Background

For more information about the end of TTM, please read this RIPE Labs
article by Kaveh Ranjbar posted last year:

https://labs.ripe.net/Members/kranjbar/future-of-ripe-ncc-technical-services

We delayed the decommissioning date mentioned in the article by six
months to provide a smooth transition for the DNSMON service from TTM to
RIPE Atlas. We also wanted to allow TTM users adequate time to start
using RIPE Atlas or other tools.

We invite your feedback regarding the above planning. Please send your
comments directly to me (<romeo.zwart at ripe.net>) or to the MAT Working
Group mailing list (<mat-wg at ripe.net>).

Regards,

Romeo Zwart
RIPE NCC