Let’s do experiments on measuring the internet, at scale, from multiple perspectives! (Got a query you want to run? I have tokens to spend!)

RIPE Atlas is a global platform for Internet measurement. Thousands of volunteers all around the world allow their machines to be used to run pings, traceroutes, DNS queries and so on. Users ask a question, the system selects a subset of probes, all probes run the query, and the system collects the results and timings.