Data Center Benchmarking Methodology
RFC 8239

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From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
To: IETF-Announce <ietf-announce@ietf.org>
Cc: Sarah Banks <sbanks@encrypted.net>, bmwg-chairs@ietf.org, The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>, bmwg@ietf.org, draft-ietf-bmwg-dcbench-methodology@ietf.org, sbanks@encrypted.net, warren@kumari.net, rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org
Subject: Document Action: 'Data Center Benchmarking Methodology' to Informational RFC (draft-ietf-bmwg-dcbench-methodology-18.txt)

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Data Center Benchmarking Methodology'
  (draft-ietf-bmwg-dcbench-methodology-18.txt) as Informational RFC

This document is the product of the Benchmarking Methodology Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Warren Kumari and Benoit Claise.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bmwg-dcbench-methodology/

Ballot Text

Technical Summary

   This document establishes test and
   evaluation methodology and measurement techniques for physical
   network equipment in the data center.

Working Group Summary

  Note to IESG: draft-ietf-bmwg-dcbench-terminology and draft-ietf-bmwg-dcbench-methodology are closely related.
  There has been an extensive amount of work done on these drafts, and progress made on revisions, feedback, and comments. There have been extensive conversations on, for example, "goodput". This are some of the most reviewed drafts in BMWG in quite some time, and the documents  have undergone 2 WGLCs.


Document Quality

   Document is clear and well written. Authors worked with the Gen-ART reviewer (Dan Romascanu) to address his review.

Personnel

   Sarah Banks is the Document Shepherd.
  Warren Kumari is RAD (and easily amused)!

RFC Editor Note