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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:25:26 -0400
I should comment that there are plans for major measurements of the Internet. We MUST be careful to expose any released data to those in research who have studied the problems that AOL ran into.
Dave Begin forwarded message: From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska () cs washington edu> Date: August 10, 2006 4:55:11 PM EDT To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Cc: Ed Lazowska <lazowska () cs washington edu> Subject: AOL Dave, We need to be sure to give AOL credit for attempting to serve the interests of the research community. They made 6 different datasets available, with the explicit goal of making it possible for university researchers to work "at scale" on realistic problems in an open and collaborative way. Yes, there was a mistake in terms of the privacy implications of one of the datasets. But AOL was attempting a good deed -- unfortunately, a good deed that will not go unpunished. Let's not lose track of this. ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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