Test Plan and Results for Advancing RFC 2680 on the Standards Track
RFC 7290
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) L. Ciavattone
Request for Comments: 7290 AT&T Labs
Category: Informational R. Geib
ISSN: 2070-1721 Deutsche Telekom
A. Morton
AT&T Labs
M. Wieser
Technical University Darmstadt
July 2014
Test Plan and Results for Advancing RFC 2680 on the Standards Track
Abstract
This memo provides the supporting test plan and results to advance
RFC 2680, a performance metric RFC defining one-way packet loss
metrics, along the Standards Track. 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.
Status of This Memo
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for informational purposes.
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(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
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approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet
Standard; see 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/rfc7290.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................3
1.1. Requirements Language ......................................4
1.2. RFC 2680 Coverage ..........................................5
2. A Definition-Centric Metric Advancement Process .................5
3. Test Configuration ..............................................5
4. Error Calibration and RFC 2680 ..................................9
4.1. Clock Synchronization Calibration ..........................9
4.2. Packet Loss Determination Error ...........................10
5. Predetermined Limits on Equivalence ............................10
6. Tests to Evaluate RFC 2680 Specifications ......................11
6.1. One-Way Loss: ADK Sample Comparison .......................11
6.1.1. 340B/Periodic Cross-Implementation Results .........12
6.1.2. 64B/Periodic Cross-Implementation Results ..........14
6.1.3. 64B/Poisson Cross-Implementation Results ...........15
6.1.4. Conclusions on the ADK Results for One-Way
Packet Loss ........................................16
6.2. One-Way Loss: Delay Threshold .............................16
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