[Tmrg-interest] feedback on draft-irtf-tmrg-metrics?

[Sally Floyd]

This is a last check of the research group to see that there is
rough consensus that "Metrics for the Evaluation of Congestion
Control Mechanisms", internet-draft draft-irtf-tmrg-metrics-06.txt,
is ready for forward to the IRTF for review and publication as an
Informational RFC.

This draft finished review in TMRG several months ago, and it just
finished a pass of feedback from ICCRG (the Internet Congestion
Control Research Group).  The feedback included feedback from
Michael Welzl and Lachlan Andrew adding explanations to the fairness
discussions, and some general feedback from Mark Allman.

I would like to forward this to the IRTF next week (March 19).  This
is a final check of the TMRG that there is rough consensus for this
document to be forwarded.  The abstract of the document contains
the following caveat:

     This document is a product of the Transport Modeling Research Group
     (TRMG), and has received detailed feedback from many members of the
     Research Group (RG).  As the document tries to make clear, there is
     not necessarily a consensus within the research community (or the
     IETF community, the vendor community, the operations community, or
     any other community) about the metrics that congestion control
     mechanisms should be designed to optimize, in terms of tradeoffs
     between throughput and delay, fairness between competing flows, and
     the like.  However, we believe that there is a clear consensus that
     congestion control mechanisms should be evaluated in terms of
     tradeoffs between a range of metrics, rather than in terms of
     optimizing for a single metric.

Thanks -

- Sally
http://www.icir.org/floyd/


History within TMRG:

* The first version of the draft was submitted in May 2005.

* The draft has had contributions or reviews from the following:
   Armando Caro, Dah Ming Chiu, Dado Colussi, Wesley Eddy,
   Nelson Fonseca, Janardhan Iyengar, Doug Leith, Saverio Mascolo, Sean
   Moore, Injong Rhee, David Ros, Andras Veres, and Damon Wischik,

* The procedure for advancing to Informational was outlined in
   email on November 8 to the TMRG mailing list, and the
   draft received a review from David Ros.

* Finished a round of feedback from ICCRG on March 6, 2007.
    Feedback from Mark Allman, Lachlan Andrew, and Michael Welzl.