Re: [ippm] A question about the interpretation of "performance monitoring" in draft-ietf-teas-actn-pm-telemetry-autonomics

[Dhruv Dhody <[e-mail]>]

Hi Greg,

Is there a way to wordsmith this to say the actual measurements might be
via any technique, but the act of subscription and publication of the
measurements is considered "passive". I hope I understood that correctly.
Looking forward to your text.

Thanks!
Dhruv

On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 1:45 PM Greg Mirsky <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi Dhruv,
> thank you for your expedient and very kind response to my notes. I will
> gladly work on refining the text. My general approach would be to position
> the YANG notification mechanism as a passive measurement method according
> to RFC 7799. Would that be acceptable?
>
> Regards,
> Greg
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 9:30 PM Dhruv Dhody <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> Thanks for the feedback. Will it be possible for you to propose the exact
>> text change you would like to see and we could discuss that? I can draft
>> the text but as you are the subject-matter-expert, I am sure you would do a
>> much better job :)
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Dhruv
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 1:45 AM Greg Mirsky <[e-mail]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Authors,
>>> thank you for all your work on the document. As you can see from the
>>> subject line, I am interested in how performance monitoring is
>>> interpreted in your draft. You've noted in the Introduction that:
>>>    The term performance monitoring is used in this document in a
>>>    different from how the term has been used in TE networks for many
>>>    years.  Performance monitoring in this document refers to
>>>    subscription and publication of streaming telemetry data.
>>> I think that it would be helpful to add a reference to the document
>>> that, in your opinion, provides a different, "traditional" interpretation
>>> of performance monitoring in TE networks. Personally, I don't see any
>>> significant differences as I consider publication/subscription as a *method
>>> *of performance monitoring. In my understanding, collecting information
>>> using YANG notifications can be classified, according to RFC 7799, as a
>>> passive measurement method (similar to SNMP queries). Another example of
>>> the PM OAM method is an active measurement, e.g., using TWAMP or STAMP.
>>> Lately, we've seen the development of a new type of PM - hybrid methods
>>> that combine characteristics of passive and active methods.
>>> I greatly appreciate your opinions on this and whether you think the
>>> draft can use RFC 7799-style classification of performance measurement
>>> methods.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Greg
>>>
>>