Re: [bmwg] I-D Action: draft-ietf-bmwg-imix-genome-01.txt

[Al Morton <[e-mail]>]

BMWG,

This update adds Ilya Varlashkin's run-length encoding suggestion
in section 5.

have a look,
Al
(as a participant)

At 09:07 AM 1/8/2012, [e-mail] wrote:

>A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
>directories. This draft is a work item of the Benchmarking 
>Methodology Working Group of the IETF.
>
>         Title           : IMIX Genome: Specification of variable 
> packet sizes for additional testing
>         Author(s)       : Al Morton
>         Filename        : draft-ietf-bmwg-imix-genome-01.txt
>         Pages           : 9
>         Date            : 2012-01-08
>
>    Benchmarking Methodologies have always relied on test conditions with
>    constant packet sizes, with the goal of understanding what network
>    device capability has been tested.  Tests with constant packet size
>    reveal device capabilities but differ significantly from the
>    conditions encountered in operational deployment, and so additional
>    tests are sometimes conducted with a mixture of packet sizes, or
>    "IMIX".  The mixture of sizes a networking device will encounter is
>    highly variable and depends on many factors.  An IMIX suited for one
>    networking device and deployment will not be appropriate for another.
>    However, the mix of sizes may be known and the tester may be asked to
>    augment the fixed size tests.  To address this need, and the
>    perpetual goal of specifying repeatable test conditions, this draft
>    defines a way to specify the exact repeating sequence of packet sizes
>    from the usual set of fixed sizes, and other forms of mixed size
>    specification.
>
>
>
>A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
>http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-bmwg-imix-genome-01.txt
>
>Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
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>
>This Internet-Draft can be retrieved at:
>ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-bmwg-imix-genome-01.txt
>
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