We had an idea 3-4 years ago to do this (the NetCensus project, which
Martin Dodge and Shane Murnion and I worked on) but in a much more p2p
decentralized way, so you could peek into all the nooks that might not
be visible from a single origin point, and also cross-reference your
data.
It would essentially be a browser plugin that would show people a map
pinpointing the location of the host serving up the current page, and
be doing all kinds of tracerouting and reporting the results back to a
central server for analysis, much like SETI@home model.
Seems to me like you'd get a much more accurate and comprehensive
picture of the 'net from multiple vantage points.
On Nov 25, 2003, at 10:26 AM, martin dodge wrote:
> Hi, some might be interested in a new 'open source' Internet network
> mapping effort called the Opte Project, directed by Barrett Lyon.
> http://www.opte.org/
> It is taking a standard approach of mass traceroutes to build up
> topology
> graphs. The graph visualisation is currently produced Graphviz.
>
> I am looking forward to testing out the option to locate yourself on
> their
> graph maps.
>
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