Liaison statement
For Information: Quality Experience Delivered program new specification

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State Posted
Submitted Date 2022-11-16
From Group BROADBAND-FORUM
From Contact Lincoln Lavoie
To Groups bmwg, IAB, ippm, RTG
To Contacts Alvaro Retana <aretana.ietf@gmail.com>
John Scudder <jgs@juniper.net>
Andrew Alston <andrew-ietf@liquid.tech>
The IAB Chair <iab-chair@iab.org>
The IAB Executive Director <execd@iab.org>
Sarah Banks <sbanks@encrypted.net>
Al Morton <acmorton@att.com>
Marcus Ihlar <marcus.ihlar@ericsson.com>
Tommy Pauly <tpauly@apple.com>
Cc John Scudder <jgs@juniper.net>
Tommy Pauly <tpauly@apple.com>
IP Performance Measurement Discussion List <ippm@ietf.org>
Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net>
Robert Wilton <rwilton@cisco.com>
Zaheduzzaman Sarker <Zaheduzzaman.Sarker@ericsson.com>
The IAB Executive Director <execd@iab.org>
Benchmarking Methodology Discussion List <bmwg@ietf.org>
The IETF Chair <chair@ietf.org>
Andrew Alston <andrew-ietf@liquid.tech>
Dave Sinicrope <david.sinicrope@gmail.com>
The IAB Chair <iab-chair@iab.org>
Sarah Banks <sbanks@encrypted.net>
Al Morton <acmorton@att.com>
Martin Duke <martin.h.duke@gmail.com>
The IAB <iab@iab.org>
Alvaro Retana <aretana.ietf@gmail.com>
Marcus Ihlar <marcus.ihlar@ericsson.com>
Response Contact lylavoie@iol.unh.edu
Purpose For information
Attachments LIAISE-557-CONTRIB-23591-03
Body 
There is increasing interest across the industry in better understanding,
measuring, and managing latency and other quality metrics, for example, the
September 2021 IAB workshop on Measuring Network Quality for End Users (RFC
9318). We have previously noted that the Broadband Forum has an ongoing program
of work called “Quality Experience Delivered” relating to this within the
Performance, Experience, and Application Testing (PEAT) project stream. This
program has previously produced a specification TR-452.1, entitled “Quality
Attenuation Measurement Architecture and Requirements”, which can be accessed
here: https://www.broadband-forum.org/technical/download/TR-452.1.pdf. This
specification details the overall approach, a generic approach to measurement
of latency and its decomposition into meaningful components, and a number of
use-cases.

A recent strand of work has concluded with the publication of a new
specification TR-452.2, entitled “Quality Attenuation Measurements using Active
Test Protocols” which can be accessed here:
https://www.broadband-forum.org/technical/download/TR-452.2.pdf. This allows
the approach to be applied much more widely at low cost by leveraging existing
protocol capabilities (for example in CPE devices) such as TWAMP or STAMP. This
opens up new use-cases beyond network design and lab evaluation such as
pro-active sampling of network performance and support for customer service
troubleshooting.

For further information contact info@broadband-forum.org.

Sincerely,
Lincoln Lavoie
Broadband Forum Technical Committee Chair

CC:
Ken Ko, BBF Managing Director <kko@broadband-forum.org>
April Nowicki, BBF Member Support Manager <anowicki@broadband-forum.org>
David Sinicrope, BBF ATA Work Area Director <david.sinicrope@gmail.com>
Greg Mirsky, BBF PEAT Project Stream Lead <gregory.mirsky@ericsson.com>
Curtis Knittle, Vice President of Wired Technologies - Cablelabs
<C.Knittle@cablelabs.com> Karthik Sundaresan, Principal Architect - Cablelabs
<k.sundaresan@cablelabs.com> Greg White, Distinguished Technologist - Cablelabs
<g.white@cablelabs.com> Al Morton, Chairman WP3/12 <acm@research.att.com>
Liaisons at BBF <liaisons@broadband-forum.org> Statements at IETF
<statements@IETF.org> Secretariat of ITU-T SG12 <tsbsg12@itu.int>

Broadband Forum Reference: LIAISE-557
Date of Upcoming Broadband Forum Meetings:
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https://www.broadband-forum.org/category_meetings_and_events/upcoming-meetings

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