[Tmrg-interest] forwarding draft-irtf-tmrg-metrics-09.txt to the IRTF for review

[Sally Floyd]

Aaron -

This is to forward the draft draft-irtf-tmrg-metrics-09.txt to the
IRTF, to be considered for Informational.

The draft is available at
"http://www.icir.org/tmrg/draft-irtf-tmrg-metrics-09.txt",
and will be submitted to the internet-drafts editor at the
end of this IETF.

The report on the document is appended below.
If this needs anything more, let me know.

Many thanks,
- Sally
http://www.icir.org/floyd/


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Document shepherd: Sally Floyd

Has the document had adequate review?
   Yes, the document has had strong reviews, from both TMRG and ICCRG
members and others.  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, David Ros, Injong Rhee, David Ros, Andras
Veres, and Damon Wischik, Feedback from the ICCRG has come from
Mark Allman, Lachlan Andrew, and Michael Welzl.

Does the Document Shepherd have concerns that the document
needs more review from a particular or broader perspective?
   Nope.  It is a pretty low-key document.

Does the Document Shepherd have any specific concerns or
issues with this document that the IRTF should be aware of?
   There isn't any particular consensus in the IETF or research
communities about the metrics that congestion control should be
designed to optimize.  The document makes this explicit.  From the
abstract:

     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.

How solid is the RG consensus behind this document?
    It is a very low-activity RG, but none of the feedback, which is
from a wide range of people, has expressed unresolved problems with
the document.  The paragraph above from the abstract tries to make
clear the nature of the consensus.

Has the Document Shepherd personally verified that the
document satisfies all ID nits?
    Yep.
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