challenges in Internet measurement (1)

(12-step program, from NSF ANIR PI meeting breakout session, jan 2003)


motivating vision: self-aware network
cultivate culture of sound measurement as science & discipline
measurements need pedigrees describing them, how to navigate
audit trails, portable analysis scripting language to support reproducibility
well-managed meta-data
understand sampling implications and technology better
anonymization tools & reduction agents

more strategic measurement, guided by rather than constraining research questions
what data is missing and how do we strategically optimize the return 
               on investment in data collection and instrumentation 
recognizing that we don't always know what questions will be asked next year
improved standardized interface to data archives