The IESG has approved the following document: - 'RFC 2544 Applicability Statement: Use on Production Networks Considered Harmful' (draft-ietf-bmwg-2544-as-08.txt) as Informational RFC This document is the product of the Benchmarking Methodology Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Ronald Bonica and Benoit Claise. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bmwg-2544-as/ Technical Summary Benchmarking Methodology Working Group (BMWG) has been developing key performance metrics and laboratory test methods since 1990, and continues this work at present. Recent application of the methods beyond their intended scope is cause for concern. This memo clarifies the scope of RFC 2544 and other benchmarking work for the IETF community. Working Group Summary Working group consensus was achieved in a single WGLC, after allowing a year for review and many useful comments and exchanges. Document Quality The single-sentence message of this memo was clear from first publication. Most comments helped to make the wording more concise. Personnel Document Shepherd: Bill Cerveny <wcerveny@wjcerveny.com> Area Director: Ronald Bonica <rbonica@juniper.net>
