Subject: [ippm] traceroute draft and joint standardization with the GGF

From: Martin Swany <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:53:12 -0500

Hi all,

Martin Swany here -- long-time IPPM lurker.  This note is
to advise the group of developments surrounding the
draft document draft-niccolini-ippm-storetraceroutes.

In January, I met with Saverio, Sandra and Juergen at
NEC in Heidelberg regarding the state of the draft and
its relation to the work going on in the Grid Forum's
Network Measurement Working Group (NM-WG).  In
the NM-WG we have been working toward standard
XML-based schemata for exchanging network
performance information.

One of the key ideas in the current NM-WG schema
is to "factor out" metadata from data to reduce the
redundant information in repeated exchanges.  These
ideas seem to map well to the traceroute work and
we agreed to apply them, while maintaining name
compatibility with the DISMAN MIB.

In addition we agreed to investigate a joint standard
between the two groups.  The chairs of the working
groups have been consulted and no one seems to
have any issue with it.  Obviously there is no formal
way to proceed yet, but we will continue to discuss
it and/or make it up as we go along.  Please let us
know if that poses a problem for anyone or if you have
any suggestions.

regards,
martin

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