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Re: [IPFIX] IPFIX re-chartering request



Hi Dan,

Brian found two typos in the milestone section.
Two deadlines are in the past: "Jan 2009" should obviously be "Jan 2010".

Sorry,

    Juergen 


On 01.09.09 17:15  "Juergen Quittek" <Quittek at nw.neclab.eu> wrote:

> Hi Dan,
> 
> On 31.08.09 16:15  "Dan Romascanu" <dromasca at avaya.com> wrote:
>> Juergen,
>> 
>> These look fine to me.
>> 
>> Can you please generate a new charter text will all these changes so
>> that I can distribute it for internal review by the IESG and IAB?
> 
> Please find the new charter text below.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>     Juergen
> 
> 
> IPFIX charter proposal
> ======================
> 
> IP Flow Information Export (ipfix)
> 
> Chair(s):
> 
>     * Nevil Brownlee <n.brownlee at auckland.ac.nz>
>     * Juergen Quittek <quittek at netlab.nec.de>
> 
> Operations and Management Area Director(s):
> 
>     * Dan Romascanu <dromasca at avaya.com>
>     * Ronald Bonica <rbonica at juniper.net>
> 
> Operations and Management Area Advisor:
> 
>     * Dan Romascanu <dromasca at avaya.com>
> 
> Mailing Lists:
> General Discussion: ipfix at ietf.org
> To Subscribe: http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipfix
> Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ipfix
> 
> Description of Working Group:
> 
> The IPFIX working group has specified the Information Model (to
> describe IP flows) and the IPFIX protocol (to transfer IP flow data
> from IPFIX exporters to collectors). Several implementers have already
> built applications using the IPFIX protocol. As a result of a series
> of IPFIX interoperability testing events the WG has produced
> guidelines for IPFIX implementation and testing as well as
> recommendations for handling special cases such as bidirectional flow
> reporting and reducing redundancy in flow records.
> 
> Practical experiences with IPFIX implementations exposed new
> requirements for the IPFIX protocol that so far have not been
> addressed by the WG. The major current goal of the WG is developing
> solutions that meet the new requirements without modifying the core
> IPFIX protocol specifications.
> 
> 1. The IPFIX WG has developed a MIB module for monitoring IPFIX
> implementations. Means for configuring these devices have not been
> standardized yet. The WG will develop an XML-based configuration data
> model that can be used for configuring IPFIX devices and for storing,
> modifying and managing IPFIX configurations parameter sets. This work
> will be performed in close collaboration with the NETCONF WG.
> 
> 2. First applications of IPFIX at large operator networks showed the
> need for mediation of flow information, for example, for aggregating
> huge amounts of flow data and for anomymization of flow information.
> The IPFIX WG will investigate this issue and produce a problem
> statement and a framework for IPFIX flow mediation.
> 
> 3. The PSAMP WG has developed a protocol for reporting
> observed packets. The PSAMP protocol is an extension of
> the IPFIX protocol. The IPFIX WG will develop a MIB module
> for monitoring PSAMP implementations. The new MIB module
> will be an extension of the IPFIX MIB module.
> 
> 4. Anonymization of flow information has been identified as a
> requirement for flow information export already in RFC 3917. However,
> technologies for flow anonymization are still a research issue and have
> so far not been considered to be mature enough for standardization.
> As one step in this direction, the IPFIX WG will develop guidelines for
> the implementation of anonymized data export and storage over IPFIX
> and define an information model for configuring and reporting
> anonymization applied at IPFIX devices.
> 
> 5. The IPFIX and PSAMP WGs have defined standards for selecting
> observed IP packets and collecting information in flow records.
> In order to reduce the amount of data to be processed, packet selection
> methods have been defined. Another method for reducing flow data is
> flow selection. The IPFIX WG will define methods for flow selection and
> provide an information model for configuring and reporting flow selection
> applied at IPFIX devices.
> 
> 6. Being designed for the export of flow records the IPFIX protocol
> provides very limited means for structuring information elements within
> IPFIX records. With the increasing number of IPFIX applications there is
> a need for exporting more complex information. The IPFIX WG will develop
> an extension of the IPFIX protocol that supports hierarchically
> structured data and lists (sequences) of Information Elements in data
> records.  
> 
> Goals and Milestones:
> 
> Oct 2009   Submit Mediation Problem Statement I-D to IESG
>            for publication as Informational RFC
> Oct 2009   Submit initial draft on anonymization support
> Oct 2009   Submit initial draft on flow selection
> Oct 2009   Submit initial draft on structuring information elements
> Jan 2009   Submit Configuration Data Model draft to IESG
>            for publication as Standards track RFC
> Jan 2009   Submit Mediation Framework I-D to IESG
>            for publication as Informational RFC
> Jan 2010   Submit final version of PSAMP MIB module
> Jun 2010   Submit anonymization support I-D to IESG
>            for publication as Experimental RFC
> Jun 2010   Submit flow selection I-D to IESG
>            for publication as Standards Track RFC
> Jun 2010   Submit structuring information elements I-D to IESG
>            for publication as Standards Track RFC
> _______________________________________________
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> IPFIX at ietf.org
> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipfix

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