“Measure twice, cut once,” says the old carpenter’s adage, and what’s good for framing a house turns out to be important for tech policy as well. Without better knowledge of what’s actually happening on the collection of networks we call the Internet, researchers and policy makers are operating from a position of ignorance. But getting that sort of network data has, to date, been tough to do.
Google’s Vint Cerf, one of the men behind TCP/IP, hopes to make it easier. Cerf Wednesday will announce at a Washington, DC event a new project launched by Google, the New America Foundation (which Google supports), and PlanetLab (which Google also helps support) designed to make distributed network management easy to do, and the data from such projects easy to share. Ars spoke with Google and the New America Foundation about the effort.
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