Hello, I support Gert here, network operators (LIRs) can have valid reasons to make some their measurements non-public. So I don't support removal of this feature. It's a bad idea... If some probe host has problem with that, why don't mark such probes as not-available for private measurements (this can be implemented easily)? And I think there will be only minority of probes marked like that. Majority of hosts will not care at all... And keep in mind that Atlas is funded by LIRs and their money. All the big-data infrastructure (and also making of hardware probes) costs real (and not small) money. Existence of rivate measurements might be one reason, why LIRs allow spending money for this useful project. Probe hosting is only small piece in expenses within this project... - Daniel On 12/16/22 19:13, Gert Doering wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 10:41:42AM -0800, Steve Gibbard wrote:
Atlas, and the RIPE NCC, have two fairly separate constituencies: researchers and operators.
This.
Operators (like me) are willing to host Atlas anchors and probes, and thus contribute to the system.
I might be troubleshooting something in our network where I have no interest in making the results public. So I value the option to have non-public measurements.
There's no "right to see all measurements" here - if someone wants to see something, they are free to run their own measurements with their own credits. What I do with my credits (which do not come for free) and who can see the results should be my decision.
Gert Doering -- NetMaster