Hi, see below, > -----Original Message----- > From: Mirja Kühlewind [mailto:i...@kuehlewind.net] > Sent: Friday, June 10, 2016 9:15 AM > To: Benoit Claise; MORTON, ALFRED C (AL) > Cc: w...@mti-systems.com; aqm-cha...@ietf.org; The IESG; draft-ietf-aqm- > eval-guideli...@ietf.org; Schulthess Nicolas (F&W); aqm@ietf.org > Subject: Re: [aqm] Benoit Claise's Discuss on draft-ietf-aqm-eval- > guidelines-11: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT) > > Benoit, > > waiting for Al. But in the mean time see below. > > On 10.06.2016 11:57, Benoit Claise wrote: > > Al, assuming that someone would like to register this metric in a > registry > > (RFC6390), are they any grey areas in the performance metric > definitions in > > the draft? > > From what I understand, a point such this one (from Al) is: > > > > Because we are using Goodput, G, I take as given that there > > must be a protocol with retransmission capability. > > Otherwise, further simplification is possible (with dummy > traffic). > > Not really if you have not retransmission, simply your > goodout=throughput. > Don't see a problem here. [ACM] Although Goodput == Throughput for UDP, you can make a simpler measurement, you don't have to check for uniqueness.
> > > > > But yes, Fs and G need to be reported on payload > > at the same layer, so the protocol layer chosen is > > an input parameter for this metric. > > Yes, it need to be the same layer for all your tests; but the goal is > not be > compatible with other tests. So it's your decision. It's guidance how > you > would test AQMs to decide if you want to deploy them in the future (or > to > show that your AQM has benefits compared to other AQMs such that another > guy > might deploy this in future). [ACM] The current text mentions the "application layer" but needs to add the note that the layer chosen needs to be specified/included in with the results, so that someone reading results later will know what was tested. Al _______________________________________________ aqm mailing list aqm@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/aqm
