Abstract Interconnection links connecting broadband access providers with their peers, transit providers and major content providers, are a potential point of discriminatory treatment and impairment of user experience. However, adequate data to shed light on this situation is lacking, and different actors can put forward opportunistic interpretations of data to support their points of view. In this article, we introduce a topology-aware model of interconnection to elucidate our own beliefs about how to measure interconnection links of access providers and how policymakers should interpret the results. We use six case studies that show how our conceptual model can guide a critical analysis of what is or should be measured and reported, and how to soundly interpret these measurements.

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映射互联网域间拥塞的政策挑战

摘要 连接宽带接入提供商与其同行、传输提供商和主要内容提供商的互连链路是歧视性待遇和损害用户体验的潜在点。然而，缺乏足够的数据来阐明这种情况，不同的行为者可以对数据提出机会主义的解释来支持他们的观点。在本文中，我们介绍了一种拓扑感知的互连模型，以阐明我们自己对如何衡量接入提供商的互连链路以及政策制定者应如何解释结果的看法。我们使用六个案例研究来展示我们的概念模型如何指导对什么是或应该测量和报告的内容进行批判性分析，以及如何正确解释这些测量。