[Tmrg] [IRSG] draft-irtf-tmrg-metrics-10 IRSG poll

[Sally Floyd]

Juergen -

> My vote is "Ready to publish" with the following comments:
>
> a) I think the acronym for the Transport Modeling Research Group is
>    TMRG and not TRMG (shows up multiple times in the ID).

Oops.  Thanks, fixed.

> b) Section 2.3.1 talks about fairness metrics and introduces Jain's
>    fairness without saying what x_i actually stands for. Further down
>    in the discussion of the product measure, we read:
>
>      [...] For our purposes, let x_i be the
>      throughput for the i-th connection.  (In other contexts x_i is  
> taken
>      as the power of the i-th connection, and the product measure is
>      referred to as network power.)
>
>    This text leaves it open whether this definition of x_i only
>    applies to the discussion of the product measure or also to other
>    places in the document (like Jain's fairness). I think this should
>    be clarified.

Done.  (I moved the definition of x_i so that it becomes before Jain's
fairness metric.)

>    In the discussion of epsilon-fairness, we then read:
>
>      where x_i is the resource allocation to the i-th flow or user.
>
>    I am wondering how resource allocation is actually defined /
>    measured. Is it the fraction of the bandwidth allocated to the
>    flow?

In the paper where epsilon-fairness is defined, they refer to x_i
as the sending rate.  I have clarified.

> c) On page 11: s/that TCP/than TCP/

Thanks, fixed.c

Many  thanks for the feedback.  The revised version of the draft
is at:
http://www.icir.org/floyd/papers/draft-irtf-tmrg-metrics-11a.txt

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



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