Re: [lmap] What is broadband?

The word "access" should be key here as part of the definition provided we are talking about an Internet service, which is the second component.   I don't really  think we are building tests that won't work on smaller pipes so questioning if it really 'broadband' or not is correct IMO.

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On Mar 7, 2013, at 9:41 AM, "Shane Amante" <shane@castlepoint.net<mailto:shane@castlepoint.net>> wrote:

Benoit,

On Mar 7, 2013, at 3:47 AM, Benoit Claise <bclaise@cisco.com<mailto:bclaise@cisco.com>> wrote:
Dear all,

I started to review the drafts, and I will start posting a few questions to the list.
Open questions, clarifying questions, in order to generate some discussions.
Disclaimer: I have not yet read the entire list archive. Apologize in advance if some points have been discussed already.

Here is my first question. What is broadband in the LMAP context?
Is it DSL, cable, ETTH, Fiber to the home?  Is LMAP technology independent?
And I see also "enterprise edge router", "cellular data or satellite" in draft-schulzrinne-lmap-requirements. In or out?
Or do we have in mind a phase approach, starting with the "enterprise edge router" first, and then home network?

Speaking for the network I operate, I'm very much an advocate of saying that "Enterprise Edge Router" is "in-scope".  We would very much benefit from a standards-based measurement enablement and collection regime vs. mostly proprietary, and non-scalable, approaches that exist today.

This is not to diminish the importance of similar test capabilities for residential broadband use-cases.  We absolutely need to work on those, as well.

With respect to priority, my hope is that we do not have to choose to prioritize one over the other.  Rather, I would hope that both can be developed in parallel, because both -- at least, IMO -- have a substantially overlapping set of requirements/features.

My $0.02,

-shane

Interestingly, I don't know what A stands for in LMAP, if it stands for something.
According to http://trac.tools.ietf.org/bof/trac/wiki/WikiStart, the A doesn't stand for anything.
However, looking at the different draft titles, there is some confusion.

   draft-linsner-lmap-use-cases-0 title is Large-Scale Broadband Measurement Use Cases
   draft-schulzrinne-lmap-requirements-00.txt title is Large-Scale Measurement of Broadband Performance
   draft-boucadair-lmap-considerations-00, Large scale Measurement of Access network Performance (LMAP):
      Requirements and Issues from a Network Provider Perspective

Some more discussions, on the mailing list or during the BoF, on this topic would be appreciated.

Regards, Benoit

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