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

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 01:28:21PM +0100, Gilles Massen wrote:

> 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.

there are two aspects:

1) disclosure of the meaasurements and results

   I agree with Gilles and Gert that there is a difference between the
   results of measurements and the fact that something is measured
   right now and here.  A publication delay seems the minimum to me,
   but for one off measurements in particular there might be reasons
   to not ever disclose them.

2) privacy of the probe host

   Maybe we need to work on "privacy considerations for probe hosts";
   The ability to track the last 25 "connections" allows tracking the
   probe's IP address (maybe that's possible even easier?) and I'm not
   sure every host is aware of that.  Opt-In is probably the very least
   we can do.

-Peter