[mat-wg] [atlas] Proposing more public RIPE Atlas data and clarifying the current situation

gilles.massen at restena.lu:
> Hi,

>> I'd support changing the default to "public", but I can't see a compelling
>> reason why you would want to make *everything* public.  
>> 
>> What if I'm measuring something, where I know some bits of my network are
>> broken but need to figure out the overall damage, that I don't want the
>> competition and media to know (if they figure it out themselves, fine, but
>> not handing it on a silver platter).

> I agree very much with this thinking. Personally I could live with
> non-public data becoming public a few days after the measurement, but if
> everything is public in realtime Atlas would lose a lot of its
> attractiveness as debugging tool.

Agreed.

... and I would add that I don't want DDoS culprits to be able to use
Atlas as a real-time assessment tool of the effectiveness of their
attacks. (Maybe they can already, but let's not help them more.)

Publishing delayed data is better.

				Cheers,
				  /Liman
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