In January and April 2021 we held the Workshop on Overcoming Measurement Barriers to Internet Research (WOMBIR) with the goal of understanding challenges in network and security data set collection and sharing. Most workshop attendees provided white papers describing their perspectives, and many participated in short-talks and discussion in two virtual workshops over five days. That discussion produced consensus around several points. First, many aspects of the Internet are characterized by decreasing visibility of important network properties, which is in tension with the Internet's role as critical infrastructure. We discussed three specific research areas that illustrate this tension: security, Internet access; and mobile networking. We discussed visibility challenges at all layers of the networking stack, and the challenge of gathering data and validating inferences. Important data sets require longitudinal (long-term, ongoing) data collection and sharing, support for which is more challenging for Internet research than other fields. We discussed why a combination of technical and policy methods are necessary to safeguard privacy when using or sharing measurement data. Workshop participant proposed several opportunities to accelerate progress, some of which require coordination across government, industry, and academia.

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克服互联网研究测量障碍研讨会（WOMBIR 2021）最终报告

2021 年 1 月和 2021 年 4 月，我们举办了关于克服互联网研究测量障碍 (WOMBIR) 的研讨会，旨在了解网络和安全数据集收集和共享方面的挑战。大多数研讨会参与者提供了描述他们观点的白皮书，许多人在五天的时间里参加了两次虚拟研讨会的简短谈话和讨论。那次讨论就几个问题达成了共识。首先，互联网的许多方面都以重要网络属性的可见性下降为特征，这与互联网作为关键基础设施的作用相冲突。我们讨论了说明这种紧张关系的三个具体研究领域：安全、互联网访问；和移动网络。我们讨论了网络堆栈所有层的可见性挑战，以及收集数据和验证推论的挑战。重要数据集需要纵向（长期、持续）的数据收集和共享，对互联网研究的支持比其他领域更具挑战性。我们讨论了为什么在使用或共享测量数据时需要结合使用技术和政策方法来保护隐私。研讨会参与者提出了几个加速进展的机会，其中一些需要政府、行业和学术界之间的协调。