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CAIDA Research - Institutional Review Boards (IRB) Approval Process
The HRPP office assists researchers in complying with federal, state and University policies regarding experimentation involving human subjects, and oversees the review and conduct of research conducted by federally registered Institutional Review Boards (IRBs).

CAIDA's Application to the UCSD IRB

On October 17, 2008 CAIDA submitted its first application to the UCSD Human Research Protections Program (HRPP) office care of its Director, Michael Caligiuri, requesting review of our research protocol by the campus Institutional Review Board (IRB). The application covered the general traffic and other data analysis work we have done for the last 10 years, not including any research involving payload (which we define as anything past the TCP/IP header). Although we expected it to go to a full panel review, our application was given expedited review and approved within 10 days. Since we would like to begin a longer conversation with our IRB regarding appropriate conduct during network research, we plan to submit a follow up application that will discuss payload analysis and we will ask that the application specifically get a full panel review. We plan to have further discussion with the our program managers and legal experts on the merits of this strategy.

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