Blogging from the Google Internet Measurement Workshop.

Back in December 2006, I organized the COMMONS Strategy Workshop at the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. Now, a year-and-a-half later, Google is getting into the game and is hosting a two-day, off-the-record strategy session to put the ideas behind the COMMONS Project into practice.

It's fantastic being here -- 25-30 incredibly brilliant folks from across North America & Europe working to solve the problem that there's far too little data available to network research. This data acquisition crisis is remarkably dangerous -- we very much do not know what's happening across the Internet, how to solve growing problems, or even whether the problems being claimed by ISPs are, in fact, real.

I'm hopeful that by cloistering ourselves off for a few days we'll generate ideas that can be put into practice, both in the short term and over time.