The Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) is a collaborative undertaking among organizations in the commercial, government, and research sectors aimed at promoting greater cooperation in the engineering and maintenance of a robust, scalable global Internet infrastructure. CAIDA provides a neutral framework to support cooperative technical endeavors. It is based at the University of California San Diego's Supercomputer Center.

CAIDA's goals are:

• To encourage the creation of Internet traffic metrics, in collaboration with IETF/IPPM and other organizations, and work with industry, consumer, regulatory, and other representatives to assure their utility and universal acceptance.

• To create a collaborative research and analytic environment in which various forms of traffic data can be acquired, analyzed, and, as appropriate, shared.

• Foster the development of advanced methodologies and techniques for: traffic performance and flow characterization, simulation, analysis, and visualization. Specific areas of future impact include real-time routing instability diagnosis and evolution for next generation measurement and routing protocols (multicast and unicast).

External links

• CAIDA Web Site