Re: FCC Takes Steps to Enforce Quality Standards for Rural Broadband

["Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood () comcast com>]

I do not. But in the FCC’s Measuring Broadband America program (MBA) they have SamKnows measurement servers located in 
a few places so perhaps that is what they mean? See 
https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/reports/measuring-broadband-america/measuring-fixed-broadband-eighth-report which 
says “The measurement servers were hosted by M-Lab and Level 3 Communications, and were located in ten cities across 
the United States near a point of interconnection between the ISP’s network and the network on which the measurement 
server resided.” In the newest (in process) report I believe they also added StackPath.

Jason


From: NANOG <nanog-bounces () nanog org> on behalf of Bill Woodcock <woody () pch net>
Date: Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 11:58 PM
To: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>, North American Network Operators' Group <nanog () nanog org>
Subject: Re: FCC Takes Steps to Enforce Quality Standards for Rural Broadband




On Oct 31, 2019, at 6:42 PM, Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com<mailto:sean () donelan com>> wrote:
There is just so much I want to make sarcastic comments about, but I worry about offending future potential employers 
(all of them).
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-takes-steps-enforce-quality-standards-rural-broadband-0

"The Bureaus required ETCs to perform speed and latency tests from the customer premises of an active subscriber to a 
remote test server located at or reached by passing through an FCC-designated Internet Exchange Point (IXP) and set a 
daily test period (requiring carriers to conduct tests between 6:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m. local time) for such tests.”

Anybody have a reference for the “FCC-designated IXPs?”  And what distinguishes them from the actual set of IXPs?

                                -Bill