[RIPE Atlas Ambassadors] How to avoid double shipping?

Hello everyone


I have come across a case multiple times where someone requests for RIPE
Atlas probe and by the time I reply back to them (say 2-3 days), they
mention that they have requested for probe directly from RIPE NCC as well.


Once I even came across a case where I had basic communication with the
host and I called them just at the time of shipping as they missed to share
their ZIP code and the host mentioned that they already applied for it to
RIPE and thus I did not send it to them but that brings of risks of sending
two probes in a scenario where we all struggle to ensure that probe we have
sent actually comes online and stays online.

I think RIPE sending probes directly is likely ineffective as it would
involve much higher cost as well as time which is what ambassadors save
(except say in case of the Netherlands or parts of Europe).


Did anyone else come across this issue? How do you ensure that probe you
are sending is not the second probe to an already shipped probe by RIPE?




Thanks.
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Anurag Bhatia
anuragbhatia.com
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