NANOG Operational Audit of IPv4+ End-to-End L3 Transport in North America

Tue Apr 27 20:02:52 UTC 2010

NANOG Operational Audit of IPv4+ End-to-End L3 Transport in North America

1. To deploy and operate a network there may be network elements (aka
NATs) that are
used by network operators to upgrade versions & to help with audits.

2. L3 "End-to-End" is only part of the story. What about Hop Count ?
Lag Latency...band-width

3. In North America the Customer DeMarc is commonly to a Linux-based
CPE Router (WRT-54GL is one example)

4. For FCC purposes and other audits, the DeMarc for L3 IPv4+ has to
be consistent to
avoid comparing apples and oranges.

5. It may be that large parts of the IPv4+ Spectrum allocated to North
America no longer qualifies as part of the L3 End-to-End Transport
(and never did?).
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xml

6. Before ISPs run off chasing the IPv6 Brokers-duJour, it may be
prudent to first make
sure their IPv4+ networks still are part of the L3 End-to-End Transport.

NANOG Operational Audit of IPv4+ End-to-End L3 Transport in North America