BMWG Page
Benchmarking Methodology
Working Group
This
is the supplementary web page for the BMWG. If you arrived here
directly you should check out the IETF BMWG
Charter, and the IETF Tools Page
(in particular, the tools page
for BMWG gives status of drafts). On the Tools page you can view
diff-marked versions of the drafts on our charter, and find some of the
drafts describing proposed new work.
Short Description: The BMWG develops terminology/definitions for
key performance characteristics of internetworking technologies, and
methodologies for laboratory measurement of these
characteristics, or benchmarks. We have prepared a series of Informational
RFCs that address specific technologies, and build on that foundation to
address new technologies as they emerge and become relevant (while
maintaining a reasonable work-load of items on our charter).
How to join BMWG: Subscribe to the mailing list, read the
charter,
and review the list
archive, but most importantly be prepared to help us with our current
work by reading the existing drafts (also the key references to BMWG RFCs)
and then share your comments on the mailing list. If
you have a new work area you would like to propose, scan the list
archive for earlier proposals and check-out the proceedings from
previous meetings, and you'll glean an idea of what's involved.
WG Last Call Process: The BMWG typically requires more than one
Working Group Last Call to reach rough consensus that a particular draft is
ready for Area Director review, IESG Review, and subsequent publication
following approval. To accelerate this process, the WG leadership
developed the WG Last Call Process Active
Review Template. When a draft is mature and enters the Last Call
Process, approximately four WG members volunteer to complete the template,
which is a set of detailed questions designed to help the reviewer consider
all important aspects of specification development. This message
to the bmwg list describes our current process in detail.
Internet Drafts of interest to Benchmarking Methodology WG participants:
(Note drafts submitted with filename draft-name-bmwg-foobar-00.txt
will automatically be listed at the bottom of the BMWG tools page, as ALL now are.)
Note - these drafts may have been revised, try incrementing the rev # if 404.
Special Projects: SIP Metrics Comparison
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