RE: [bmwg] New WG Deliverable Proposal - Core Router Software Acc elerated Life Testing

I recommend that the BMWG undertake the effort to make this a WG
deliverable.

Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Dubray [mailto:kdubray@juniper.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 4:51 PM
To: bmwg@ietf.org
Subject: [bmwg] New WG Deliverable Proposal - Core Router Software
Accelerated Life Testing

BMWG,

It has been proposed that the WG support a new work item relative to the
individually-submitted I-D "Terminology for Benchmarking Core Router
Software Accelerated Life Testing":

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-poretsky-routersalt-term-01.txt

Goal:

If undertaken by the WG, the objective of this effort is to produce a
terminology and methodology set of drafts that specifies the benchmarking of
router software under accelerated stress conditions.

Scope:

The focus of this effort is to benchmark the behavior of Internet Core
Routers in accelerated stress conditions.  Routers in other contexts are
outside the scope of this effort.

Motivation:

Router testing benchmarks have consistently been made in a monolithic
fashion in which a single protocol or behavior is measured in an isolated
environment.  It is important to know the limits for a router/switch's
(hereby referred to as Router) behavior for each protocol, however this does
not produce a reliable benchmark of the router's behavior in a deployed
network.  Routers in an operational network are simultaneously configured
with multiple protocols and security policies while forwarding traffic and
being managed.  To accurately benchmark a router for deployment it is
necessary to test that router in operational conditions by simultaneously
configuring the network protocols and security policies, sourcing traffic,
and managing the router.  It is helpful to accelerate these network
operational conditions so that the router under test can be benchmarked with
faster test duration. Testing a router in accelerated network conditions is
known as Accelerated Life Testing.

If you wish to offer your thoughts as to whether the BMWG should or should
not undertake the effort as a WG deliverable, please email your comments to
this list or kdubray@juniper.net no later than 07 May 03.

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