Thanks for the feedback, Leslie.
Yeah it's more about having direct connections. I guess we can't really use it to increase bandwidth except to people already on their network, but those who are on the network do tend to use our sites a lot, since they often have to do research.
I'm not clear on whether we would be merely peering with them or actually adding another data link, since (for instance) Missouri University set up their own IXP just to connect to their network. But peering seems to achieve the desired result.
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Leslie Carr lcarr@wikimedia.org wrote:
FYI -
Also while I would see a benefit in peering, I would probably use the transit or partial transit bgp group, since this is being like a transit network, and I wouldn't want to overrule our better paths to their downstream AS'es
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As the network person, I don't really see any benefit in joining internet2, though I would see a benefit in possibly peering with them at Equinix Ashburn, since according to their looking glass they have a more direct connection to several AS'es than we do.
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 5:49 AM, Jasper Deng jasper@jasperswebsite.com wrote:
Sneakernets are not particularly convenient. If the organizations of the net wanted to use that for data transfer, the net wouldn't exist.
But I still think Wikimedia could increase/streamline accessibility to
its
information. It probably couldn't happen, but they have more than enough capacity to serve our content alone from eqiad (replacing or augmenting
our
existing links). Wikimedia also develops new ways to reach more people (such as MediaWiki mobile) like many of the organizations.
Internet2 is not set up as a true transit network, so this would not work.
Another information organization that's participating is JSTOR, which I think is comparable to our projects as a source of information, so I
think
we can benefit from it.
I'd respectfully disagree, as a Wikidata editor, that Commons is the only large database, because it may be large in terms of file size, but
Wikidata
has more tangible "hard" machine-readable data, with much more to come.
But from a network perspective, wikidata is a small database since it is text... and the only benefit of joining internet2 is the network connection.
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 4:41 PM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 12 October 2013 21:41, Jasper Deng jasper@jasperswebsite.com
wrote:
We could change that. Suppose a university wants to request the entire knowledgebase of Wikidata or another project, or if we need to do a
mass
transfer of data from them.
Still not significant. The only really large database we have is the commons image database and a sneaker net might be the most practical
option
there.
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