IP Performance Metrics (ippm)
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 Charter 
 Last Modified: 21-Oct-97
 
 Current Status: Active Working Group
 
 Chair(s):
     Guy Almes <almes@advanced.org>
     Vern Paxson <vern@ee.lbl.gov>
 
 Transport Area Director(s): 
     Scott Bradner  <sob@harvard.edu>
     Allyn Romanow  <allyn.romanow@eng.sun.com>
 
 Transport Area Advisor: 
     Scott Bradner  <sob@harvard.edu>
 
 Mailing Lists: 
     General Discussion:ippm@advanced.org
     To Subscribe:      ippm-request@advanced.org
     Archive:           ftp://ftp.advanced.org/pub/IPPM/archive
 
Description of Working Group:
 
The IPPM WG will develop a set of standard metrics that can be applied 
to the quality, performance, and reliability of Internet data delivery  
services.  These metrics will be designed such that they can be 
performed by network operators, end users, or independent testing 
groups. It is important that the metrics not represent a value judgement 
(i.e. define "good" and "bad"), but rather provide unbiased quantitative 
measures of performance.

Functions peripheral to Internet data delivery services, such as 
NOC/NIC services, are beyond the scope of this working group.

The IPPM WG will define specific metrics, cultivate technology for the
accurate measurement and documentation of these metrics, and promote 
the sharing of effective tools and procedures for measuring these 
metrics.  It will also offer a forum for sharing information about the 
implementation and application of these metrics, but actual 
implementations and applications are understood to be beyond the scope 
of this working group.
 
 Goals and Milestones: 
 
   Oct 97       Submit drafts of standard metrics for connectivity and 
                treno-bulk-throughput.                                         

   Nov 97       Submit a framework document describing terms and notions used 
                in the IPPM effort, and the creation of metrics by the working 
                group to IESG for publication as an Informational RFC.         

   Feb 98       Submit documents on delay and loss to IESG for publication as 
                Informational RFCs.                                            

   Apr 98       Submit a document on connectivity to IESG for publication as an
                Informational RFC.                                             

   Sep 98       Submit a document on bulk-throughput to IESG for publication as
                an Informational RFC.                                          


 Internet-Drafts:

  No Current Internet-Drafts.

 Request For Comments:

  None to date.