The IP Performance Measurement (ippm) WG in the Transport Area of the IETF has been rechartered. For additional information, please contact the Area Directors or the WG Chairs. IP Performance Measurement (ippm) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Current status: Active WG Chairs: Brian Trammell <ietf@trammell.ch> Bill Cerveny <ietf@wjcerveny.com> Assigned Area Director: Spencer Dawkins <spencerdawkins.ietf@gmail.com> Transport Area Directors: Spencer Dawkins <spencerdawkins.ietf@gmail.com> Mirja Kühlewind <ietf@kuehlewind.net> Mailing list: Address: ippm@ietf.org To subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ippm Archive: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/ippm/ Group page: https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/ippm/ Charter: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/charter-ietf-ippm/ The IP Performance Measurement (IPPM) Working Group develops and maintains standard metrics that can be applied to the quality, performance, and reliability of Internet data delivery services and applications running over transport layer protocols (e.g. TCP, UDP) over IP. It also develops and maintains methodologies and protocols for the measurement of these metrics. These metrics, protocols, and methodologies are designed such that they can be used by network operators, end users, or independent testing groups. Metrics developed by the IPPM WG are intended to provide unbiased quantitative performance measurements. The IPPM WG works to foster commonality and comparability of metrics and measurements across IETF protocols at different layers. Its work is limited to metrics and methodologies which are applicable over transport-layer protocols over IP, and does not specify encapsulations required for measurements over non-IP layers. The IPPM WG has produced documents that define specific metrics and procedures for accurately measuring and documenting these metrics. The working group will continue advancing the most useful of these metrics along the standards track, using the guidelines stated in RFC 6576. To the extent possible, these metrics will be used as the basis for future work on metrics in the WG. The WG will seek to develop new metrics and models to accurately characterize the network paths under test and/or the performance of transport and application layer protocols on these paths. The WG will balance the need for new metrics with the desire to minimize the introduction of new metrics, and will require that new metric definitions state how the definition improves on an existing metric definition, or assesses a property of network performance not previously covered by a defined metric. Metric definitions will follow the template given in RFC 6390. Additional methods will be defined for the composition and calibration of IPPM-defined metrics, as well as active, passive and hybrid measurement methods for these metrics. In addition, the WG encourages work which describes the applicability of metrics and measurement methods, especially to improve understanding of the tradeoffs involved among active, passive, and hybrid methods. The WG may update its core framework RFC 2330 as necessary to accommodate these activities. The WG has produced protocols for communication among test equipment to enable the measurement of the one- and two-way metrics (OWAMP and TWAMP respectively). These protocols will be advanced along the standards track. The work of the WG will take into account the suitability of measurements for automation, in order to support large-scale measurement efforts. This may result in further developments in protocols such as OWAMP and TWAMP. Agreement about the definitions of metrics and methods of measurement enables accurate, reproducible, and equivalent results across different implementations. To this end, the WG defines and maintains a registry of metric definitions. The WG encourages work which assesses the comparability of measurements of IPPM metrics with metrics developed elsewhere. The WG also encourages work which improves the availability of information about the context in which measurements were taken, for example (but not limited to) measurement implementation information, estimates of confidence in these measurements, conditions on the network(s) on which measurements are taken, and/or information about the data-plane topology of these network(s). In the interest of measurement comparability, the WG may define data formats and information models for the storage and exchange of the results of measurements defined within IPPM. The IPPM WG seeks cooperation with other appropriate standards bodies and forums to promote consistent approaches and metrics. Within the IETF process, IPPM metric definitions and measurement protocols will be subject to as rigorous a scrutiny for usefulness, clarity, and accuracy as other protocol standards. The IPPM WG will interact with other areas of IETF activity whose scope intersects with the requirement of these specific metrics. The WG will, on request, provide input to other IETF working groups on the use and implementation of these metrics. Milestones: Done - Submit draft on RFC 2680 standards-track advancement testing to IESG as Informational Done - Submit draft updating the IPPM Framework (2330-update) to IESG as Proposed Standard Done - Submit draft on reference path for measurement location to IESG as Informational Done - Submit draft on access rate measurement protocol problem statement to IESG as Informational Done - Submit draft on OWAMP / TWAMP Security to IESG as Proposed Standard Done - Submit draft on "A One-Way Delay Metric for IPPM" (RFC 2679 bis) as Internet Standard Done - Submit draft on "A One-Way Loss Metric for IPPM" (RFC 2680 bis) as Internet Standard Done - Submit draft on DSCP and ECN monitoring in TWAMP to IESG as Proposed Standard Done - Submit draft on the UDP Checksum Trailer in OWAMP and TWAMP to the IESG as Informational Done - Submit a draft defining terminology for the continuum of passive and active measurement to the IESG as Informational Done - Submit draft on model-based TCP bulk transfer capacity metrics to IESG as Experimental Done - Submit a draft on the IPv6 Performance and Diagnostic Metrics (PDM) Destination Option as Proposed Standard Done - submit a Standards Track document to the IESG adding support for IEEE-1588 timestamps to TWAMP Oct 2017 - submit a Standards Track document to the IESG for a YANG model for managing TWAMP clients and servers Nov 2017 - Submit draft on core registry for performance metrics to IESG as Proposed Standard Nov 2017 - submit a Standards Track document to the IESG defining initial contents of performance metric registry Nov 2017 - Submit an Experimental draft on coloring-based hybrid measurement methodologies for loss and delay to the IESG Jul 2018 - submit a Standards Track document to the IESG updating RFC2330 to cover IPv6 Nov 2018 - submit a Standards Track draft on inband OAM based measurement methodologies to the IESG
