The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Data Center Benchmarking Methodology' (draft-ietf-bmwg-dcbench-methodology-18.txt) as Informational RFC
This document is the product of the Benchmarking Methodology Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Warren Kumari and Benoit Claise. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bmwg-dcbench-methodology/ Technical Summary This document establishes test and evaluation methodology and measurement techniques for physical network equipment in the data center. Working Group Summary Note to IESG: draft-ietf-bmwg-dcbench-terminology and draft-ietf-bmwg-dcbench-methodology are closely related. There has been an extensive amount of work done on these drafts, and progress made on revisions, feedback, and comments. There have been extensive conversations on, for example, "goodput". This are some of the most reviewed drafts in BMWG in quite some time, and the documents have undergone 2 WGLCs. Document Quality Document is clear and well written. Authors worked with the Gen-ART reviewer (Dan Romascanu) to address his review. Personnel Sarah Banks is the Document Shepherd. Warren Kumari is RAD (and easily amused)!
