Governance
This data scientist wants to build an archive about the history of internet measurement
Jim Cowie, co-founder and Chief Data Scientist at DeepMacro, recently posted an article titled Thinking about Internet history on the APNIC website. He has over 25 years of experience as a data storyteller in Internet measurement and recently launched the Internet History Initiative, with the idea o…
Headline
Jim Cowie, co-founder and Chief Data Scientist at DeepMacro, recently posted an article titled Thinking about Internet history on the APNIC website. He has over 25 years of experience as a data storyteller in Internet measurement and recently launched the Internet History…
Context
Jim Cowie , co-founder and Chief Data Scientist at DeepMacro, recently posted an article titled Thinking about Internet history on the APNIC website. He has over 25 years of experience as a data storyteller in Internet measurement and recently launched the Internet History Initiative, with the idea of building an internet library for future historians, piecing together the recorded history of the Internet. Also read: What is APNIC? Inside the backbone of Asia’s internet
Evidence
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Analysis
Curate history to interpret it and make it accessible and meaningful for future scholars. Cowie argues that if we want to ensure that the story of the Internet is preserved in a quantifiable way for future generations of scholars, and that data is brought together to protect it from irreversible damage, we basically have three collective tasks to accomplish before we all forget how it works: In addition to active measurements, we need to keep a record of registry data – to whom these network resources have been assigned on every day in history, from ARIN, RIPE NCC, and APNIC – and any information we can find about the DNS name associated with each IP address on a given day. These are collective clues to what all these Internet hosts are doing, and also provide clues that they may be located on Earth. Refactor the Internet into a point-in-time database
Key Points
- Jim Cowie, co-founder and Chief Data scientist at DeepMacro, invites the creation of an online library about internet measurement.
- He believes there are three steps to perfecting a task: save, narrative, and explore.
Actions
Pending intelligence enrichment.
