[atlas] Looking for advise and temporarily limits increment for research

Hi Yihao,

I'd just wait a couple more days since the email was sent on a Friday, and
he might not have seen it yet.

Best,
-Michael

On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 4:32 PM, Yihao Jia <yhjia03 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Peter,
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> I did send an email to Chris Amin (camin at ripe.net), but there might be
> some problem with my Gmail system and I cannot get his reply, or just
> because he is busy these hours.
>
> I am sorry that I am in a hurry for this issue, and my research system
> involves several parts and they work simultaneously, while the limit
> regulation of RIPE atlas part fails the process of my whole system every
> day. And I really need to deal with this.
>
> Since I haven't connected to Chris yet, could you help me ping him and
> loop me back in any possible way?
>
> Thanks,
> Yihao
>
> (below is the email I sent to Chris yesterday.)
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Dear Chris,
>
> Thank for helping me!
>
> I am a Ph.D. student. The reason why I try to launch so many measurements
> is just for research.
> And I wish the rate limits could be
> temporarily
> ​ ​
> increased for 10 days, since I probably might
> exceed
> most of these rules.
>
>
> Generally, my research is like this.
> ---
> Part 1.
> I have 860 targets to ping, and thus 730 measurements. And for each
> target, I would like to use a fixed set of 100 probes in the measurement.
> For each of the measurement, I'd like the target to be Pinged by these 100
> probes on every 1 hour, and the measurement is planned to stop 12 hours
> later after the measurement start. Thus, if one probe sent 3 packets at
> each ping, the total credits will be 3,096,000 (730*12*100*3=3,096,000).
>
> Part 2.
> This looks like a random measurement. My research is about an Internet
> anomalies detection system. So every time my system triggers an alarm, (the
> alarm would set for 1 of the 730 targets), I'd like to start an instant,
> and probably one-off measurement from the previous 100 probes to the
> alarmed target. The question is this anomalies detection system is still
> under improvement, so I don't exactly know how many measurements might
> concurrently be started at the same time.
> ---
> (The 730 targets are elaborately selected and necessary to me because I
> need the dataset as many as possible to examine the accuracy of the system
> )
>
>
> I check the rules at: https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/udm/#rate-limits
> It makes me feel like I might exceed many rules intentionally
> or unintentional.
> Considering I am in a huge hurry to examine this system, I'd very like the
> limits for these rules be temporarily increased.
>
> I appreciate every suggestion and help on this!
> My RIPE atlas account is: yhjia.03 at gmail.com
>
> Many thanks,
> Yihao
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 at 07:06, Peter Eckel <lists at eckel-edv.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jia,
>>
>> did you read the mail vom Chris Amin from yesterday? I guess that should
>> answer everything. I'd get in touch with Chris and discuss the rest
>> directly.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>   Peter.
>
>
>
>
>
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