<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Kurt,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for a post, it was good having a chat.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What I would like to know, on a more high-level note, is how the community sees measuring the Internet via wireless channels. This brings some challenges, because measurements can be affected by such as interference (weather, radio, solar, etc) and also the probe itself moving.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That of course does not detract from the initial question of deploying probes on LEO networks, but rather should be seen as adding on to it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Michel<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 28 Oct 2022, at 10:04, Kurt Kayser <<a href="mailto:Kurt.Kayser@online.de" class="">Kurt.Kayser@online.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" class=""> <div class=""><p class=""><font size="4" class="">Dear Atlas-ml-followers,</font></p><p class=""><font size="4" class="">this a summary of a brief discussion I had with Michel Stam during RIPE85.</font></p><p class=""><font size="4" class="">We believe there might be a great value putting up a public Internet monitoring probe (vantage point) into low earth orbit satellite systems, such as Starlink.</font></p><p class=""><font size="4" class="">Monitoring from terrestrial end-points delivers high variances, due to frequent sat-changes.</font></p><p class=""><font size="4" class="">If we could put up an ATLAS-probe (be it SW - which is probably easier than HW) into a specific plane, we could add interesting tests and try to interpret the values depending on position over specific areas, atmospheric influences, solar influences as well as other effects that would change signal patterns.</font></p><p class=""><font size="4" class="">I would be offering support to try to establish such a probe and help to setup a project defition.</font></p><p class=""><font size="4" class="">Any thoughts or feedback to this idea?</font></p><p class=""><font size="4" class="">Best regards</font></p><p class=""><font size="4" class="">Kurt Kayser</font></p><p class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""> </font></p> </div> -- <br class="">ripe-atlas mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:ripe-atlas@ripe.net" class="">ripe-atlas@ripe.net</a><br class="">https://mailman.ripe.net/<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>