[metrics-team] Improving Relay IPv6 - RIPE Grant

[teor]

> On 16 Dec 2019, at 18:17, Karsten Loesing <karsten at torproject.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2019-12-13 08:05, teor wrote:
>> 
>> I just wanted to let you know that RIPE has announced funding for The
>> Tor Project to improve IPv6 support on relays. (RIPE is the European
>> internet infrastructure organisation.)
>> 
>> https://www.ripe.net/support/cpf/funding-recipients-2019
>> 
>> I don't have the exact details in front of me, but we did include an
>> IPv6 metrics component in the grant.
> 
> Congratulations! That's great news!
> 
> My vague memory is that you included very small metrics tasks in this
> proposal, because you had to reduce the budget. I believe that we picked
> something that doesn't require changes to our data pipeline. Instead,
> you're adding a few new lines to tor descriptors, and we write custom
> analysis code to plot some numbers, once or twice in the project time frame.
> 
> We're going to include this in the roadmap as a smaller task. But even
> if it weren't in the roadmap, we'd likely be able to squeeze it in.

That's what I remember as well.

If we have money left over in the grant, we should think about using it to
create ongoing metrics graphs. Then we could track the impact of the
changes over time.

T