0. BEREC Net Neutrality working group Consideration of IP measurement standards and work of respective standardization bodies
1st Stakeholder Consultation Workshop: Mapping Study Phase II: Mapping of Broadband Services in Europe (SMART 2014/0016) 7th and 8th June 2016 Brussels
Volker Sypli

1. NN QoS activities – past and present
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
NN QoS Framework
NN QoS Guidelines
(Public Consultation)
NN QoS Monitoring
(Public Consultation)
NN QoS Feasibility
NN Guidelines and Toolkit
QoS concepts and evaluation
Types of congestion
Specialized services
Most relevant QoS Indicators: throughput, latency, jitter, packet loss
Generic and application-specific degradation
Guidance on when and how to exercise powers to impose minimum QoS requirements
3 pilars:
- Ensuring that market forces work
Monitoring QoS over time
Case-by-case investigations of NN incidents
More detailed study of QoS metrics
Promotion of crowd-sourcing platforms
Mainly active measurements based on injected traffic
Proposes further study of a common measurement platform
Feasibility of a common measurement platform: technical, legal and economic issues
Current effort
New European single telecom market regulation

2. Status of work
BoR (14) 117 Monitoring quality of Internet access services in the context of net neutrality BEREC report (published )
BEREC considered international/European standards and recommendations from CEPT, ETSI, ITU and IETF
ECC Report 195, 2013, ETSI Guide EG and ITU-T Rec. Y.1541 and G.1010 specify measurement metrics upload and download speeds, delay, delay variation, packet loss ratio, and packet error ratio
Similar definitions in IETF: RFC 2679 and RFC 2681 one-way and round-trip delay, RFC 3393 defines delay variation and RFC 2680 and RFC define one-way and round-trip packet loss metrics. RFCs 3148 and 6349 define frameworks for measurement of transmission speed using the TCP protocol
Although several standards exist for quality metrics, BEREC believes that there is a need to further specify and clarify metrics and corresponding measurement methods to achieve a consistent IAS quality evaluation toolkit.
Within area of Internet communication, IETF has a central role and continues to develop IP technology. Therefore, IETF has a particularly important position regarding IP quality measurement.
NRAs should continue, and also consider enhancing, their participation and contribution to SDOs, such as IETF regarding IP-based quality measurements.
It is expected that further experiences about technical measurement methods and architectures will be gained over time, and this should be fed into activities in organizations like BEREC and CEPT, and standardization work, notably in IETF, but also ETSI and ITU.

3. Status of work Annex of Based of Monitoring report (BoR (14) 117)
analysis of current measurement systems of European NRAs
lists basic measurement tools (Network Diagnostic Tool, Glasnost, Shaperprobe, Neubot, Network Access Neutrality Observatory)
and measurement platforms (RIPE ATLAS, M-Lab)
Main findings of the Monitoring Report
More detailed study of QoS metrics
Promotion of crowd-sourcing platforms
Mainly active measurements based on injected traffic
Measurement metrics for the quality of IAS as a whole: upload/download speed, delay and jitter, packet loss
Proposes further study of a common measurement platform
Study on common measurement platform was conducted 2015 (internal report/not published):
Architecture of platform builds on IETF Large-Scale Measurement of Broadband Performance (LMAP) working group.
Measurement metrics have been discussed in more detail. But no final specification. On-going work of IETF IP Performance Metrics (IPPM) working group will be followed.

4. Current efforts
Development of a Net Neutrality quality of service (NN QoS) regulatory assessment toolkit. It will build on previous BEREC guidance on monitoring methods and recommending legal considerations to be taken into account when addressing issues of Net Neutrality and traffic management. The NN QoS assessment toolkit will describe regulatory best practices on IAS quality and Net Neutrality monitoring.
On-going work in standardization will be further analyzed
Scope not only on IAS as a whole measurements but also on net neutrality violations at application layer
Report in early 2018

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