Subject: [ippm] Supplement to RFC5136

From: Steve Baillargeon <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:56:50 -0400

Hi Matt, Hi Henk
As discussed during the meeting, I suggest the following items for the new draft supplementing RFC5136 Defining Network Capacity:
*       Add short description of the various capacity methods in an appendix (up to certain limit) but without any benchmarking
*       Capture a synthesis or summary of the methods in the main text
*       Use a simple black box approach with inputs like packet size, source inter-packet intervals for a given train, destination inter-packet intervals for a given train, etc... and outputs like capacity results and/or next rates to evaluate, etc to describe the generic method to evaluate the capacity metrics.

This way I think we should get a solid reference that will drive the required changes to the TWAMP and OWAMP protocol as needed.

Let me leave with a quote from Leslie Daigle (Chief Internet Technology Officer): "We have a bad track record of predicting the future of the Internet. This is why we specify the building blocks and not the buildings".

Regards
Steve B