Benchmarking Methodology WG (bmwg) 60th IETF – San Diego, CA Thursday, August 5, 2004, Chairs: –Kevin Dubray –Al Morton If you are not subscribed to the BMWG mailing list and would like to be, put an asterisk (*) by your name when you sign the blue attendance sheet.

BMWG Agenda Note-Taker(s) and Blue Sheets WG Status (Chairs, 10 min) Milestones (Chairs, 5 min) Comments on the Active Review Template Experiment (Chairs, 10 min) IGP Dataplane Convergence I-Ds. (Poretsky, 15 min) Core Router Accelerated Life Testing (Poretsky, 10 min)

BMWG Agenda (New Work) Hash and Stuffing (Newman, 15 min) Short discussion on “plug-in” Drafts (Chairs, 5 min) LDP Convergence (Poretsky, 10 min) Automatic Protection Switching (Poretsky, 15 min) –Terminology (comments, 5 min) –MPLS Protection Methodology (Poretsky, 5 min) –Discussion Wrap-up/Conclusion (Chairs, 10 min)

BMWG Activity AD/IESG Review, revised, IESG done?, Revised on IESG comments, same WG Last Call, Draft expired. New Editors, but..., Call ended w/editorials, new editor? I-Ds, draft 7/04, some list comments, back in WG, LC soon, READ Revised IETF 60 Revised on WGLC Revised

BMWG Activity Expired BMWG I-Ds –, Pending term. progress – Pending term progress New Work proposals. –Protection benchmarking - need to clarify... See meeting notes from IETF-58, IETF-57 and earlier... –Considerations for Measuring Network Convergence, is BMWG the home for this? –Suggestion for MPLS-LDP convergence benchmarking RFC Editor – Charter Update –Revising Milestones. New RFC:

(Actual 8/3/04) BMWG Charter Milestones Done Resource Reservation Benchmarking Terminology to AD Review Apr 03 Net Traffic Control Benchmarking Terminology to AD Review Apr 03 Methodology for FIB related Router Performance Benchmarking to AD review. Done EGP Convergence Benchmarking Terminology to AD Review NOT Done Resource Reservation Benchmarking Methodology to AD Review Jul 03 Basic BGP Convergence Benchmarking Methodology to AD Review. Dec 03 Net Traffic Control Benchmarking Methodology to AD Review. Dec 03 IPsec Device Benchmarking Terminology to AD Review

Reviewers in BMWG Last Call Situation: Visible, initial WG interest on a topic; invisible, non-editor support thereafter. Motivation: –Provide deterministic, directed, and visible input to review of BMWG I-Ds. –Provide BMWG guidelines to help assure quality of output. –Meant to complement, not replace, feedback from the general BMWG community.

Proposed Milestones Revise/Add: Aug 04 Resource Reservation Benchmarking Terminology to AD Review Aug 04 Net Traffic Control Benchmarking Terminology to AD Review Aug 04 Support EGP Convergence Benchmarking Terminology through AD Review Nov 04 Support OSPF Convergence Benchmarking Drafts through AD Review Dec 04 Methodology for FIB related Router Performance Benchmarking to AD review. Aug 04 IPsec Device Benchmarking Terminology to AD Review New: Jul 05 Net Traffic Control Benchmarking Methodology to AD Review. Jul 05 IPsec Device Benchmarking Methodology to AD Review Aug 04 IGP/Data-Plane Terminology I-D to AD Review Dec 04 IGP/Data-Plane Methodology and Considerations I-Ds to AD Review Dec 04 Router Accelerated Test Terminology I-D to AD Review Aug 05 Router Accelerated Test Method. and Considerations I-Ds to AD Review

Reviewer Guidelines Areas Technical Content –Soundness, accuracy, & completeness. Utility & Clarity –Would you use? –Able to use in current form? –Caveats? General –Conformance to BMWG charter. –Regard for general BMWG tenets. –Consistency to other BMWG & other WGs RFCs. –Nits Readability, conformance to I-D guidelines