[afnog] NEWS: Collecting African IXP Colocation Data for research purposes (following on Joint Study which Identifies Infrastructure Development as Top Priority for ICT in Africa)

[Andy Davidson]

Hi, Yeye

You wrote:
> Are there privacy implications of such data collection ?

Good question!  The sort of data which is collected and share is the data which an IXP would publish on their website for marketing and to help operators debug problems or plan their networks in any case.  The advantage of the IX-F database is that the data is in a single place and in a common format so that it can be plugged in to operators’ scripts and systems.

Thanks
Andy