Cisco Service-Level Assurance Protocol
draft-cisco-sla-protocol-04

The draft draft-cisco-sla-protocol-01
is ready for publication from the Independent Stream.
Please ask IESG to review it, as set out in RFC 5742.

The following is some background for this draft, please forward it
to IESG along with this request ...

Its abstract says:
"Cisco's Service Level Assurance Protocol is a protocol that has been
widely deployed. The protocol is used to measure service level
parameters such as network latency, delay variation, and packet/frame
loss. This draft describes the protocol."

I suggested that this could better be a WG item for the IPPM WG;
reaction from IPPM was that there was not enough support within the
WG to take it on.

The authors wish to publish it as an RFC, and hope that by doing
so, others may be encouraged to implement it. They assert that it's
been deployed on their equipment for some time, and is being used.

Scott Bradner pointed out that their IPR statement mentions "a standard
adopted by IETF." I'm working with the authors and Cisco legal folk
to get that changed to something more suitable for an Informational
RFC."