The COMMONS Initiative: Cooperative Measurement and Modeling of Open Networked Systems
Sascha D. Meinrath, kc claffy · Scholarship at Catholic Law (Catholic University of America) · 2008
Over the past several years, interest in municipal wireless and community networking has increased dramatically.'Thus far, these initiatives have generally focused on networking local communities.The next evolution in networking involves peering these networks together.2 Research on broadband service provision is desperately needed to help forge new national telecommunications policies and inspire innovation in networking technologies.'With this goal in mind, the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis ("CAIDA") held a workshop to discuss-and ultimately proposecollaboration among researchers and networks to simultaneously solve three The COMMONS Strategy Workshop brought together leaders from across North America to discuss issues related to broadband service provision and to strategize about how to interconnect existing networks to one another utilizing national fiber assets.An earlier version of this article was published on the CAIDA Web site.The authors