CAIDA Topology Data Request Form

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CAIDA makes topology data freely available to academic researchers and US government agencies. Corporate entities (including corporate researchers) receive access through CAIDA's membership program. Information on membership levels, services, and rates is found on the CAIDA Sponsorship Information page, or can be requested by emailing sponsorship@caida.org.

CAIDA provides an industry evaluation dataset to corporate researchers to allow them to assess the usefulness of the CAIDA topology data for their research, and justify CAIDA membership for their organization.

If you have questions or problems using this form, please send email to data-info+topology@caida.org.

If your research involves:

finding links between Autonomous Systems (AS)

studying the Internet topology, or

obtaining Internet topology data for modeling

then you do not need to fill in the form below. We recommend that you download, without prior approval, pre-computed AS-level graphs derived from Ark measurements. We distribute these curated AS graphs to help those researchers who don't need the raw IP or router granularity.

If you want access to the raw topology data or to the industry evaluation data, please complete and submit the following Topology Data Request Form. It usually takes about two to three business days to process your request. Upon approval, you will receive an email with instructions on how to download your requested data.

* required field

*Relationship to CAIDA:

   I am an academic researcher / student
   I am a CAIDA sponsor
   I am a U.S. government contractor
   I am from a U.S. government agency
   I am from a corporate organization
   Other (please specify):

*First (Given) Name:

*Last (Family) Name:

Please enter a one-time-use password in the fields below. You will use this password to initially log in and create a permanent password, so please remember it. If you already have a password to access CAIDA backscatter, worm, or other anonymized passive data you may skip this step.

*Temporary password:

*Temporary password (again):

*Phone Number:

*Full name of your Institution/Company:

*Mailing Address:

*Your email at this Institution/Company:
(an academic email address is required for academic researchers/students)

*Position:

   Professor/Principal investigator
   Student
   Other (please specify):

Advisor's Name (required for students):

URL of your project
(if available):

* Which topology dataset are you requesting?
(please check the appropriate button)

  IPv4 and IPv6 Topology Datasets
      (for academic and government users, and corporate CAIDA members)
      which includes:

  Industry Evaluation IPv4 and IPv6 Topology Dataset
      (corporate researchers that are not CAIDA members can only obtain this dataset)
      which includes:

Sample of IPv4 Routed /24 Topology Dataset
Sample of IPv6 Topology Dataset

* Please submit a detailed 1-2 paragraph description summarizing your research goals.
Sample descriptions from other projects can be found at
http://www.caida.org/data/skitter/skitter_data_use.xml

How many Phd students will use the data? (if applicable):
How many Masters students will use the data? (if applicable):
How many other students will use the data? (if applicable):
Please read the terms of the following Acceptable Use policy: Macroscopic Topology data will not be distributed beyond authorized users. I will notify CAIDA of the names and email addresses of any persons (and their respective affiliations) assisting me in research using the macroscopic topology data. This includes graduate students and interns. The privacy of end users (hosts) and networks monitored by the IPv4 Routed /24 Topology will be respected by the data users. All publications (papers, web pages, presentations, etc.) will anonymize IP addresses, network names, and domain names. At the end of the research, or semi-annually (which ever is more frequent), a summary of the research and any findings/conclusions will be reported to CAIDA. If any research is described on the WWW, a URL will be provided. This information is primarily used in reports to our funding agencies. In so far as possible, research findings and conclusions using the topology data will be published and/or made publicly available All users who publish a document (including web pages, and papers) using data from this dataset must provide CAIDA with a copy of the publication and must cite either: The CAIDA IPv4 Routed /24 Topology Dataset - < dates used >, Young Hyun, Bradley Huffaker, Emile Aben, and Matthew Luckie, http://www.caida.org/data/active/ipv4_routed_24_topology_dataset.xml. or, if skitter macroscopic topology data is also used: The CAIDA Macroscopic Topology Data - < dates used >, http://www.caida.org/projects/macroscopic/. Users are encouraged, but not required, to include the following attribution in the acknowledgments section of their document: Support for the IPv4 Routed /24 Topology Dataset is provided by the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Homeland Security, the WIDE Project, Cisco Systems, and CAIDA Members. If skitter data is also used, users are encouraged to also include: The data used in this research was collected as part of CAIDA's skitter initiative, http://www.caida.org. Support for skitter is provided by DARPA, NSF, and CAIDA sponsorship. All users who create a publicly available presentation using data from this dataset must provide CAIDA with a copy of the presentation and must use the full name of the dataset ("The CAIDA IPv4 Routed /24 Topology Dataset" or if skitter data was used, "The CAIDA Macroscopic Topology Data") in the presentation. Users are further encouraged, but not required, to include the URL for the dataset (http://www.caida.org/data/active/ipv4_routed_24_topology_dataset.xml or http://www.caida.org/projects/macroscopic/) in their presentation. *I agree with the terms of this policy
CAIDA will do dataset related announcements, like the availability of a new datasets, on the data-announce@caida.org mailinglist. Subscribe me to data-announce@caida.org

Last Modified: Fri Aug-6-2010 11:54:33 PDT

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