Benchmarking Methodology WG (bmwg)
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TUESDAY, March 20, 2007 
1300-1500 Afternoon Session I
Karlin I
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CHAIR(s): Al Morton <acmorton@att.com>

DRAFT Agenda

0.  Agenda bashing (if we need to shuffle a few items)
    See https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/meeting_materials.cgi?meeting_num=68
    for Agenda updates and Slides

1.  Working Group Status (Chair)
    draft-ietf-bmwg-hash-stuffing-08    	RFC Ed Queue
    see http://tools.ietf.org/wg/bmwg/ for status of other drafts

2.  IPv6 Benchmarking Methodology   (Chip Popoviciu)
    draft-ietf-bmwg-ipv6-meth-01
Results from WGLC: close on any open issues

3.  Benchmarking Protection Mechanisms  (JL Le Roux)
    draft-ietf-bmwg-protection-meth-01  	
    draft-ietf-bmwg-protection-term-01
Need discussion to close on previous issues raised, such as whether a loss-based
recovery time determination is sufficient for protection mechanisms.
Editorial review of the entire methodology; changes to the text include:
Refined Intro to improve the flow of the document
Deleted figure 4.9 and reduced number of test cases to 2 in section 5.5 

4.  Benchmarking Resource Reservation Mechanisms  (Krisztian Nemeth)
    draft-ietf-bmwg-benchres-term-08    	RFC Ed Queue
What was accomplished, what is ahead...

5.  Milestone Status (Chair)


*******   New Work Proposals  *********


6.  New Proposal Summary (Chair)

7.  LDP Convergence Benchmarking Terms and Methodology (Rajiv Asati)
    draft-eriksson-ldp-convergence-term-04
    draft-karthik-bmwg-ldp-convergence-meth-00
Added new term – LDP Advertisement Type
First draft of methodology to complement terms

8.  Bidirectional Forwarding Detection Benchmarking  (Rajiv Asati)
    draft-salahuddin-bmwg-bfd-motivation-00
The BFD protocol is becoming an increasingly popular alternative to a 
variety of existing methods to detect forwarding failures on links between 
network elements. It is being proposed as the forwarding failure detection 
mechanism for a host of routing protocols, virtual links and p2mp topologies. 
It is a very useful in the situations where underlying physical media doesn't 
lend itself well to fast detection of failures. 

You can find extensive information on the BFD protocol itself at the BFD WG weblink 
http://tools.ietf.org/wg/bfd/

9.  Multicast VPN Scalability Benchmarking  (Silvija Dry)
    draft-sdry-bmwg-mvpnscale-01
- Update on changes in the "01" version
- Agree on the scope of the draft