[atlas] Overuse of software probes

grzegorz:

your work sounds fun, interesting, and useful.  but your message pushed
one of my minor buttons.  just some food for thought, not a critique of
any of these efforts.  i really like them.

maybe it is because i am more routing/forwarding oriented; but i think
more about topology more than i think of geography or political realms.
e.g. for an example look at the ipv6 peering poolpah in asia.

and one more level down, i am not entirely comfortable with AS topology.
there are teensie local ASs, large global ASs, and many flavors in
between.

contrawise, when i discussed this with romain a while back, i had to
admit that there are sooooo many small ASs that the law of large numbers
is on his side.

just food for thought.

randy