[8080] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: measurement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sun Mar 9 17:09:14 1997
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 97 14:06 PST
From: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush)
To: Jim Browning <jfbb@atmnet.net>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
> The measurement techniques described thus far focus on performance within
> the bounds of a single network. While this is of course a challenge, what
> about efforts to measure performance _across_ networks? I'm not talking
> about NAP packet loss here, but a true measure of expected customer
> satisfaction.
Expectations of customer satisfaction are aleph nul or likely aleph one.
Measurement of end user delivery are being done rather ad hack (hit the web
site and see how high it bounces) by the folk at Intel, see
Network Working Group J. Sedayao, Intel Corporation
C. Bickerstaff, Intel Corporation
Internet Draft
Expiration Date: May 1997 November 1996
Simple End to End Metrics and Methods for Monitoring and Measuring IP
Provider Performance
The IPPM WG is trying to work upward from a sound theoretical base. See the
other IPPM drafts and mailing list archives.
randy
