[rfc-dist] RFC 4445 on A Proposed Media Delivery Index (MDI)

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        RFC 4445

        Title:      A Proposed Media Delivery Index 
                    (MDI) 
        Author:     J. Welch, J. Clark
        Status:     Informational
        Date:       April 2006
        Mailbox:    Jim.Welch at ineoquest.com, 
                    jiclark at cisco.com
        Pages:      10
        Characters: 24171
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-welch-mdi-03.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4445.txt

This memo defines a Media Delivery Index (MDI) measurement that can be
used as a diagnostic tool or a quality indicator for monitoring a
network intended to deliver applications such as streaming media, MPEG
video, Voice over IP, or other information sensitive to arrival time
and packet loss.  It provides an indication of traffic jitter, a
measure of deviation from nominal flow rates, and a data loss
at-a-glance measure for a particular flow.  For instance, the MDI
may be used as a reference in characterizing and comparing networks
carrying UDP streaming media.  This memo provides information for the Internet community.


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Joyce K. Reynolds and Sandy Ginoza
USC/Information Sciences Institute

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