Agree that there's already a bunch of geolocation based measurement that uses Atlas, which increases the value of having a consistent set of anchor points in subsequent measurement work.

I'm not sure if there's a process for this sort of feature request beyond this mailing list. Would it help if I propose a more concrete PR against https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/ripe-atlas-software-probe

--Will

On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 2:23 PM Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:

> To expand on the immediate area of research, I'd like to have a distributed
> system where nodes self-identify what location they're in. There are a
> number of situations - be it operator misconfiguration or active attempts
> to misreport where it is more concrete to instead have nodes report their
> location based on time bounding their distance to known locations. The
> atlas looks like a great existing set of known anchor points to base such
> measurements on, but that attestation of location is very difficult to
> construct without additional authenticity.
>
> (Nodes may be behind NATs make it seem difficult to measure outbound from
> atlas probes to them)

Candela, M., Gregori, E., Luconi, V., Vecchio, A. (2019). Using RIPE
Atlas for geolocating IP infrastructure

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Using-RIPE-Atlas-for-Geolocating-IP-Infrastructure-Candela-Gregori/2bc71c0985d0b531da644335c1430060e3185cc3

randy

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