The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Operation of the IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Protocol on IPFIX Mediators' (draft-ietf-ipfix-mediation-protocol-10.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the IP Flow Information Export Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Joel Jaeggli and Benoit Claise. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ipfix-mediation-protocol/ Technical Summary This document specifies the operation of the IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) protocol specific to IPFIX Mediators, including Template and Observation Point management, timing considerations, and other Mediator-specific concerns. The document is intended to be a Proposed Standard. It explains, in detail, how IPFIX Mediators should be configured so that IPFIX Exporters and Collectors can work properly (i.e. produce correct expected behaviour) through them. Working Group Summary This draft was first submitted in December 2011. Two of its authors are also authors of the two IPFIX Mediation RFCs, 5982 and 6183. Since then it has received ongoing low-activity-level discussion on the IPFIX list. It has also been discussed at each IETF meeting since then; consensus from those meetings was that the work covered by this draft was needed so that IPFIX mediators could be deployed and used effectively. The draft acknowledges that this work on this is partially supported by the mPlane project, implying that there is strong interest in it within mPlane. Document Quality The document has recieved careful review by Rahul Patel, Paul Aitken and Andrew Ferren Personnel Document shepherd: Nevil Brownlee Responsible Area Director: Joel Jaegli
