Guidelines for Considering New Performance Metric Development
RFC 6390
Document | Type |
RFC - Best Current Practice
(October 2011; No errata)
Also known as BCP 170
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Authors | BenoƮt Claise , Alan Clark | ||
Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized bibtex | ||
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Stream | WG state | WG Document | |
Document shepherd | No shepherd assigned | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 6390 (Best Current Practice) | |
Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
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Responsible AD | Dan Romascanu | ||
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) A. Clark Request for Comments: 6390 Telchemy Incorporated BCP: 170 B. Claise Category: Best Current Practice Cisco Systems, Inc. ISSN: 2070-1721 October 2011 Guidelines for Considering New Performance Metric Development Abstract This document describes a framework and a process for developing Performance Metrics of protocols and applications transported over IETF-specified protocols. These metrics can be used to characterize traffic on live networks and services. Status of This Memo This memo documents an Internet Best Current Practice. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on BCPs is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6390. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2011 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Clark & Claise Best Current Practice [Page 1] RFC 6390 Guidelines Perf. Metric Devel. October 2011 This document may contain material from IETF Documents or IETF Contributions published or made publicly available before November 10, 2008. The person(s) controlling the copyright in some of this material may not have granted the IETF Trust the right to allow modifications of such material outside the IETF Standards Process. Without obtaining an adequate license from the person(s) controlling the copyright in such materials, this document may not be modified outside the IETF Standards Process, and derivative works of it may not be created outside the IETF Standards Process, except to format it for publication as an RFC or to translate it into languages other than English. Clark & Claise Best Current Practice [Page 2] RFC 6390 Guidelines Perf. Metric Devel. October 2011 Table of Contents 1. Introduction ....................................................4 1.1. Background and Motivation ..................................4 1.2. Organization of This Document ..............................5 2. Terminology .....................................................5 2.1. Requirements Language ......................................5 2.2. Performance Metrics Directorate ............................5 2.3. Quality of Service .........................................5 2.4. Quality of Experience ......................................6 2.5. Performance Metric .........................................6 3. Purpose and Scope ...............................................6 4. Relationship between QoS, QoE, and Application-Specific Performance Metrics .............................................7 5. Performance Metrics Development .................................7 5.1. Identifying and Categorizing the Audience ..................7 5.2. Definitions of a Performance Metric ........................8 5.3. Computed Performance Metrics ...............................9 5.3.1. Composed Performance Metrics ........................9 5.3.2. Index ..............................................10 5.4. Performance Metric Specification ..........................10 5.4.1. Outline ............................................10 5.4.2. Normative Parts of Performance Metric Definition ...11 5.4.3. Informative Parts of Performance Metric Definition .........................................13 5.4.4. Performance Metric Definition Template .............14 5.4.5. Example: Loss Rate .................................15 5.5. Dependencies ..............................................16 5.5.1. Timing Accuracy ....................................16Show full document text