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https://www.measurementlab.net/about/
Open Internet Measurement
When your Internet connection doesn’t work as expected, how can you tell whether the problem is caused by your connection, the application or something else? Answering this question and others like it is surprisingly difficult. That is where Measurement Lab comes in.
M-Lab is an open source project with contributors from civil society organizations, educational institutions, and private sector companies dedicated to:
Providing an open, verifiable measurement platform for global network performance
Hosting the largest open Internet performance dataset on the planet
Creating visualizations and tools to help people make sense of Internet performance
What is M-Lab’s mission?
M-Lab aims to advance Internet research by empowering consumers with useful information about their Internet performance. By providing free, open Internet measurement data, researchers, regulators, advocacy groups, and the general public can get a better sense of how the Internet is working for them, and how to maintain and improve it for the future.
Why Measurement Lab?
Real science requires verifiable processes, and M-Lab welcomes scientific collaboration and scrutiny. This is why all of the data collected by M-Lab’s global measurement platform is openly available, and all of the measurement tools hosted by M-Lab are open source. Anyone with the time and skill can review and improve the underlying methodologies and assumptions on which M-Lab’s platform, tools, and data rely. Transparency and review are key to good science, and good science is key to good measurement.
An Open Platform for Researchers
M-Lab assists scientific research by providing widely distributed servers and ample connectivity for researchers’ use. Each researcher-developed test is allocated dedicated resources on the M-Lab platform to facilitate accurate measurements. Server-side tools are openly licensed and operated, allowing third parties to develop their own client-side measurement software.
Better Open Data for Everyone
All data collected via M-Lab are made available to the public M-Lab’s historical data archive providers a common pool of historical network measurement information that anyone may use, and is a data source enabling consumers, operators, regulators, researchers, and civil society to understand the state and quality of the Internet.
What is the history of M-Lab?
In 2008, Vint Cerf, one of the “fathers of the Internet,” began a series of conversations with Internet researchers to learn more about challenges they faced while trying to study Internet performance. Researchers identified several problems, including a lack of widely deployed servers with ample connectivity to support Internet measurement experiments. They also reported an inability to share large data sets with one another easily.
There also was no public resource that could provide combined performance data to policymakers or to consumers interested in understanding their Internet performance over time. As a result of these conversations, M-Lab was founded to help address the core problems experienced by researchers and to promote large-scale open source measurement of the Internet.
M-Lab is an open source project with contributors from civil society organizations, educational institutions, and private sector companies, and is a fiscally sponsored project of Superbloom.
M-Lab is a community-based open source project made possible by every contributor who runs a measurement, and from supporters from civil society organizations, educational institutions, and private sector companies dedicating time, expertise, and financial resources. M-Lab operates as a not-for-profit and is a fiscally sponsored project of Superbloom. Learn how to get involved.
Maintainers
Roberto D'Auria
Roberto D'Auria
Senior Software Engineer
Christophe Diot
Christophe Diot
Principal Engineer, Google
Phillipa Gill
Phillipa Gill
Research Scientist, Google
Nathan Kinkade
Nathan Kinkade
Platform Engineer, Superbloom
Cristina Leon
Cristina Leon
Software Engineer, Google
Matt Mathis
Matt Mathis
Independent Contributor
Melissa Newcomb
Melissa Newcomb
Senior Program Manager, Superbloom
Pavlos Sermpezis
Pavlos Sermpezis
Director, Technical Lead, Superbloom
Arthur Terry
Arthur Terry
Program Manager, Google
Experiment Review Committee
Georgia Bullen
Georgia Bullen
Superbloom Design
Vint Cerf
Vint Cerf
Google
Nick Feamster
Nick Feamster
University of Chicago
Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
Northwestern University
Sascha Meinrath
Sascha Meinrath
X-Lab
Larry Peterson
Larry Peterson
Princeton University
Stephen Stuart
Stephen Stuart
Google
Advisory Committee
Peter Boothe
Peter Boothe
Triple Pat
Georgia Bullen, Chair
Georgia Bullen, Chair
Superbloom Design
Lai Yi Ohlsen
Lai Yi Ohlsen
Cloudflare
Chris Ritzo, Consultant
Chris Ritzo, Consultant
Anemophilous Futures
M-Lab Founders
Vint Cerf
Vint Cerf
Google
Sascha Meinrath
Sascha Meinrath
Penn State/X-Lab (Current)
OTI (Previous)
Larry Peterson
Larry Peterson
Princeton University
Derek Slater
Derek Slater
Proteus Strategies
Google (Previous)
Stephen Stuart
Stephen Stuart
Google
Meredith Whittaker
Meredith Whittaker
Signal
Google (Previous)
Supporting Research Projects
Wehe
Wehe
Northeastern University
Network Diagnostic Tool
Network Diagnostic Tool
Internet2
Reverse Traceroute
Reverse Traceroute
University of Washington
IP Route Survey
IP Route Survey
Dioptra group at
Sorbonne Université
Supporting Partners
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