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July 2014

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Re: [ooni-talk] Bridge reachability, Iran measurements & Network Interference Consortium (OONI - CPP discussion)
by George Kadianakis 30 Jul '14

30 Jul '14

Arturo Filastò said: > Hi all, > > As promised here is the summary of what we talked about in the call > between OONI and Choke Point Project. > > > <snip> > > ## Weekly meeting > > We agreed to have weekly meetings on IRC every Friday at 5 PM CET (11 AM > EST). > > The meetings will start on August 1st and they will be held on the #ooni > channel on irc.oftc.net. > > Everybody is invited! > I plan to attend this meeting. As Arturo said, it will happen this friday at 5 PM CET (aka 3 PM UTC). The place is IRC in #ooni at irc.oftc.net.

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Bridge reachability, Iran measurements & Network Interference Consortium (OONI - CPP discussion)
by Arturo Filastò 10 Jul '14

10 Jul '14

Hi all, As promised here is the summary of what we talked about in the call between OONI and Choke Point Project. People present: Ruben, Laurier, Pascal, vmon, Arturo. The goal of this conversation was to establish a collaboration between OONI and CPP. CPP is a team of experts in data analysis and visualization and they will be working on analyzing the results of OONI tests. We talked about what was said related to OONI during the Tor Developer meeting in Paris. The main topics covered were: ## Bridge reachability measurements We are going to be conducting some bridge reachability measurements from China, Iran and the US for assessing which bridges are working and which are not. US will be used as a control to verify that the bridge is blocked and not simply offline. The list of bridges to be tested will be composed of both the public bridges and a set of 10 bridges that are not given out to anybody. This will allow us to understand if by conducting measurements we are giving to the censor addresses of bridge. The Tor master trac ticket related to this project is: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/12544 We will probably start collecting data on this starting in Septemeber 2014. Since March 2014 till July 2014 we have some data on bridge reachability from Russia, China and the US. This data is not very complete and contains some bugs due to not having proper monitoring infrastructure in place and the fact that the machines running the probes are very out of date (who the hell still uses Fedora 8!?). The OONI team agreed to give access to the CPP team this data so that they can start looking and it and figuring out how to process and visualize it. In this project CPP agreed to work on data analytics and visualization. ## Iran Measurements This project is aimed at collecting some data on network interference in Iran. Vmon will be speaking to some organizations active in Iran to acquire some machines for doing some testing. We will then design a test deck suitable for Iran: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/12578 When we have collected enough data this will be handed over to the CPP team for analytics and visualization. Once that is done we will produce a shiny report on what are the findings and conclusions. ## Network interference consortium We talked a bit about the notion of having a consortium that will be monitoring the status of network interference in the world. The conclusion was that we should start out by trying our proposed workflow on a specific country with a small team of people. Once that is done we should start bringing in partners from other organizations. These are the graphics that were produced during the tor developer meeting: Organizational roles: https://ooni.torproject.org/media/OONI%20Consortium%20graphics.pdf Workflow: https://ooni.torproject.org/media/OONI%20Consortium%20graphics%20-%20workfl… ## Weekly meeting We agreed to have weekly meetings on IRC every Friday at 5 PM CET (11 AM EST). The meetings will start on August 1st and they will be held on the #ooni channel on irc.oftc.net. Everybody is invited! ## Communication channels We agreed that all communications should happen on public mailing lists (https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/ooni-dev/ and https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/ooni-talk/) For communication that could contain sensitive information we should use email with an explicit cc list. If you think I forgot something please be sure to fill in the gaps. Have fun, ~ Art.

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