Sub-IP Layer Protection Mechanism Performance Benchmarking

draft-ietf-bmwg-protection-term-04.txtdraft-ietf-bmwg-protection-meth-03.txt

BMWG, IETF-72Dublin, Ireland

July/August 2008

Author Team: Poretsky, Papneja, Karthik, Vapiwala, LeRoux, Rao

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Scope of Work Item

Common terminology and metrics for benchmarking the performance of sub-IP layer protection mechanisms

Benchmarks are measured at the IP-Layer Methodology is technology-independent so can be used

to compare performance of different protection mechanisms

Terminology will applied to separate Methodology documents for different sub-IP layer protection mechanisms Multi-Protocol Label Switching Fast Reroute (MPLS-FRR) Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) Automatic Protection Switching (APS) Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) Stateful High Availability (HA)

Drafts currently available for review draft-ietf-bmwg-protection-term-04.txt draft-ietf-bmwg-protection-meth-03.txt

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Current Status/Update

Under re-review by all the co-authors Incorporating comments from the group Soliciting more comments on the existing documents No new updates for the IETF-72 since none of the co-author

could make it Next versions of the Sub-IP Protection Meth and Term to

include the following changes Formatting Editorial changes Splitting the Introduction in the terminology document into two

sections: Introduction and Overview Optimizing the usage and reference to figures/test setups Recent comments from Bill Cerveny (Thanks to him for his

thorough review and comments of the terminology doc)

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Next Steps

Incorporate any new comments from meeting and mailing list Version 4 of methodology document will be submitted

soon Version 5 of the terminology document will be

submitted soon Seek direction from the working group on firming up

the progress of terminology document as lot of time and reviews have already been performed