CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_


Reported by Scott Bradner/Harvard

BMWG Minutes

The Benchmarking Methodology Working Group had a well attended and
productive meeting in Boulder.

The terminology memo was moved forward to the IAB as an informational
document and will be sent to the RFC editor.

There was much discussion on what parameters should be included in the
list of information requested of vendors for a specific device.  There
was concern expressed that the list of questions be framed in such a way
that vendors will not be asked to reveal what they might consider to be
trade secrets.  A list of parameters was tentatively decided upon and
fell into two categories:


  1. Informational parameters that require behavior descriptions.
  2. Parameters that require specific testing procedures and reporting
     formats.


An example of the first is device behavior when in an overloaded state,
does it throw away all incoming frames or does it do some form of
prioritization.  An example of the second is the frames per second
throughput of a device.

A draft of the methodology memo is planned for January with a video
conference to be held about that time.

Attendees

Terry Bradley            tbradley@wellfleet.com
Scott Bradner            sob@harvard.edu
Stewart Bryant           bryant@enet.dec.com
Randy Butler             rbutler@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Caroline Cranfill        rcc@bss.com
Dino Farinacci           dino@esd.3com.com
Harold Jones             hjones@nac.dec.com
Ken Jones                uunet!konkord!ksj
William Kutz             Kutz@dockmaster.ncsc.mil
Joshua Littlefield       josh@cayman.com

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Gary Malkin              gmalkin@ftp.com
Donald Merritt           don@brl.mil
Lynn Monsanto            monsanto@sun.com
James Mostek             mostek@cray.com
Bahaa Moukadam
Brad Parker              brad@cayman.com
Joel Replogle            replogle@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Kary Robertson
Timothy Salo             tjs@msc.edu
Tom Sandoski             tom@concert.net
Emil Sturniolo
Osamu Takada             takada@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Dean Throop              throop@dg-rtp.dg.com
William Townsend         townsend@xylogics.com
Glenn Trewitt            trewitt@nsl.pa.dec.com
Steven Waldbusser        waldbusser@andrew.cmu.edu
Linda Winkler            b32357@anlvm.ctd.anl.gov



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