[atlas] What is 'iwantbcp38compliancetesting' user tag?

On 12/01/16 18:55, Mike wrote:
> On 1/11/2016 11:36 PM, Emile Aben wrote:
>> [snip]
>> dismissing this as useless is a bit premature i think. this is an
>> experiment about how to get community feedback, tied to specific
>> resources (ripe atlas probes) this community has (ie. one vote per
>> probe). if the number of people that 'vote' is insignificant the
>> conclusion is that my attempt of collecting feedback didn't work.
>>
>> [snip]
> 
> If I want to affect the feature set of the probe, I would do so by using
> communication channels that are already in place, e.g., that we are
> using now with this mailing list.
> 
> I view the probes' tags as a way to announce what the capability of the
> probe is, and not what I want the capability of the probe to be. I feel
> that the reduction of the usefulness of the probes' tags to something
> akin to facebook's "likes" is a diversion of purpose.

agree that this shouldn't become a facebook-"like" type of thing, but
it's a fine line. i see this particular tag as showing the potential for
a capability of the probe, a tag like 'iwantaffordablebroadband' would
not be.

> If you want to have some manner of voting, then do so via your account
> on the RIPE website. I have to log in to the account to change the tags
> on my probe, why not just put a voting option on the website? I see no
> need, and I have no desire, to display my vote among the public data on
> my probe.

agree, this is a hack. a web poll could be a better means of collecting
feedback, if we'd also tie the analysis to probe hosting, to show if
there is potential for an opt-in bcp38 compliance testing.

current status of the tags:
$ egrep -i 'bcp38|spoof' tags.txt
iwantbcp38compliancetesting (45)
sourceaddressspoofok (3)
bcp38 (1)

i'd characterise that as a bit low turn-out, but informative in the
light of previous discussions on this mailing list.
as a comparison, for the ripe labs poll on wifi measurements in ripe
atlas we got 159 voters.

cheers,
emile