Network Working Group L. Ciavattone
Internet-Draft AT&T Labs
Intended status: Informational R. Geib
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A. Morton
AT&T Labs
M. Wieser
Technical University Darmstadt
February 17, 2013
Test Plan and Results for Advancing RFC 2680 on the Standards Track
draft-ietf-ippm-testplan-rfc2680-02
Abstract
This memo proposes to advance a performance metric RFC along the
standards track, specifically RFC 2680 on One-way Loss Metrics.
Observing that the metric definitions themselves should be the
primary focus rather than the implementations of metrics, this memo
describes the test procedures to evaluate specific metric requirement
clauses to determine if the requirement has been interpreted and
implemented as intended. Two completely independent implementations
have been tested against the key specifications of RFC 2680.
In this version, the results are presented in the R-tool output form.
Beautification is future work.
Requirements Language
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.1. RFC 2680 Coverage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2. A Definition-centric metric advancement process . . . . . . . 5
3. Test configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4. Error Calibration, RFC 2680 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.1. Clock Synchronization Calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.2. Packet Loss Determination Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5. Pre-determined Limits on Equivalence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
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