1. 26Jul 2012BMWG@IETF841 BGP Data-Plane Benchmarking Applicable to Modern Routers Rajiv Papneja Ilya Varlashkin Bhavani Parise Dean Lee Sue Hares

2. 26Jul 2012BMWG@IETF842 Background/ Current Status Terminology for Benchmarking BGP Device Convergence in the (RFC 4098) / June 2005 Two complementing BGP Methodology drafts in progress Draft-1 focusing on the BGP Data Plane convergence was posted prior IETF 80 draft-papneja-bgp-basic-dp-convergence-03 Author team: Rajiv Papneja, Bhavani Parise, Sue Hares, Ilya Varlashkin Contributors: Deal Lee, Eric Brendal, Mohan Nanduri, Jay Karthik Draft-2 focuses on Data-plane convergence on modern routers, which have local restoration capability was posted prior to IETF 82 draft-varlashkin-router-conv-bench-00 Author Team: Ilya Varlashkin, Rajiv Papneja, Bhavani Parise, Dean Lee Reviewer: Tara Van Unen

3. 26Jul 2012BMWG@IETF843 Current Status & Action Items from IETF83 Obtained feedback from multiple Service Providers. Various tests from the draft termed as ‘Valuable’ and ‘Important’ by the Providers Presented and solicited feedback from IDR Performed Benchmarking tests based on the methodology from the draft and Presented the Results to BMWG Current version of draft addresses comments from prior IETFs and comments from WG list http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-papneja-bgp-basic-dp-convergence-03

4. 26Jul 2012BMWG@IETF844 Feedback Specifics for Draft-1 Tests considered by Verizon as Valuable and Important and have been demonstrated to them Review from Compass, yielded in PIC test cases Positive feedback and support on scope and test coverage from architect at FT-Orange Contributions and Support from IDR Chair This draft generated interest for collaboration with other draft work being pursued in IDR (gs-vpn-scaling)

5. 26Jul 2012BMWG@IETF845 Current Status & Action Items For Draft-1: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-papneja-bgp-basic-dp-convergence-03 Obtained more positive feedback from additional Service Providers Can we agree on approach and direction? Agree on WG-item adoption For Draft-2: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-varlashkin-router-conv-bench-00 Lack of Capabilities in Protocol Simulators hindering certain test scenarios. Alternative Setup being explored Inputs welcome!