[IP] AOL

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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.


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