scope:

This Recommendation describes the framework for Internet related performance measurements which can be established at the national or international level, providing customers of the existing public telecommunication operator's networks the possibility to measure the customer's connection to the Internet.

Involved measurement systems, which may also be used for measuring Internet related performance measurements from the customer to a particular Internet resource, should then be based on the functional architecture and the main requirement of the framework provided in this Recommendation.

The location of the particular Internet resource is not defined in this Recommendation being aware of the existence of restricted access to resources in order to conform to national regulations.