A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 5982 Title: IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Mediation: Problem Statement Author: A. Kobayashi, Ed., B. Claise, Ed. Status: Informational Stream: IETF Date: August 2010 Mailbox: akoba@nttv6.net, bclaise@cisco.com Pages: 25 Characters: 56005 Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None I-D Tag: draft-ietf-ipfix-mediators-problem-statement-09.txt URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5982.txt Flow-based measurement is a popular method for various network monitoring usages. The sharing of flow-based information for monitoring applications having different requirements raises some open issues in terms of measurement system scalability, flow-based measurement flexibility, and export reliability that IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Mediation may help resolve. This document describes some problems related to flow-based measurement that network administrators have been facing, and then it describes IPFIX Mediation applicability examples along with the problems. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes. This document is a product of the IP Flow Information Export Working Group of the IETF. INFORMATIONAL: This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. This announcement is sent to the IETF-Announce and rfc-dist lists. To subscribe or unsubscribe, see http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce http://mailman.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-dist For searching the RFC series, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcsearch.html. For downloading RFCs, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html. Requests for special distribution should be addressed to either the author of the RFC in question, or to rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org. Unless specifically noted otherwise on the RFC itself, all RFCs are for unlimited distribution. The RFC Editor Team Association Management Solutions, LLC _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce