Brian:
Apologize for late reply. Thanks for valuable review.
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发件人: Brian Trammell [mailto:[email protected]] 
发送时间: 2018年4月10日 0:36
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主题: Tsvart early review of draft-ietf-alto-performance-metrics-03

Reviewer: Brian Trammell
Review result: On the Right Track

I've performed a (late, apologies) early TSV-ART review of 
draft-ietf-alto-performance-metrics-03.

The set of metrics chosen by the document seem broadly useful and sane, and the 
integration into ALTO makes sense. However, there are a few issues with the 
details.

Periodic One Way Delay, RTT, and PDV are defined in terms of section 8, section 
4, and section 5, respectively, of draft-ietf-ippm-initial-registry, which 
specify active measurement test methodologies at layer 4 for one-way and 
round-trip delay using UDP packets. This does not seem it can be measured 
directly using the routing  technologies the authors have identified as their 
source of information. Is the intention that dedicated active measurement 
hardware be used to measure delay using UDP packets, or should these metrics 
reference [RFC2679] and [RFC2681] and leave the methodology undefined, instead?

[Qin]: I think measurement method is not limited to using routing technology as 
source of information, we also allow using other source of information, e.g., 
active measurement at layer 4, that allow an ALTO Server to retrieve and derive 
the necessary information to compute the metrics that we describe in this 
document.
I will make this clear in the text. Thanks.

The examples for these don't make much sense: the units are expressed in 
seconds, but Internet-scale delays are generally millisecond-scale, and the 
examples given contain only integers. Similarly, packet loss rate is given in 
percentile, but there are wide variations in usability between a path with 0%, 
1%, and 2% packet loss. Is this simply an issue with the examples?
[Qin]: The reason to express units as seconds is to align with measurement unit 
defined in e.g.,one way delay metric defined in 
draft-ietf-ippm-initial-registry, I think you are right, we can redefine more 
fine granularity measurement unit in this document. For packet loss rate, this 
is just an example, we can provide an example that more make sense.

The hop count metric is underspecified: are these IP-experienced hops at layer 
3, as can be measured by traceroute?
[Qin]: Yes, you are right, traceroute is one mechanism we can leverage to 
measure hop count, e.g., sending UDP probe message, I can add more detailed 
text o specify hop count.

Nit: section 2.1 refers to [OSPF-TE], [ISIS-TE], [BGP-LS] and [BGP-PM], but 
these are not listed as such as references in the references section. Please 
use consistent reference labels.

[Qin]: Fixed, thanks.

Thanks, cheers,

Brian

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