Executive Summary

Up-to-date, relevant Internet research requires comprehensive network measurement [1], [2], but conducting and supporting Internet measurement raises several daunting challenges for the research community and funding agencies. Researchers need current data to progress in many areas, including Internet topology structure, routing dynamics, security, and workload trends. Given the inherent diversity of the Internet, collection of data requires a large-scale, distributed network measurement infrastructure. However, several challenges must be solved to enable large-scale measurement: funding of collection infrastructure, preserving the privacy of ISPs and users, resolving legal and proprietary ownership concerns, and prohibiting experiments that might cause harm. The Community-Oriented Network Measurement Infrastructure (CONMI) workshop brought together key members of the Internet measurement research community to discuss whether a community-oriented approach could address current and near-future challenges in large scale measurement. Our inspiration came from the astronomy and high-energy physics communities which have self-organized to build, operate, and allocate the use of large, unique, and expensive measurement platforms. The objective of this workshop was to explore whether this cooperative model would benefit the Internet measurement community. Internet measurements must respect the privacy of both users and of network providers. We explored th