I-D Action: draft-calabria-bmwg-ai-fabric-terminology-04.txt

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   Title:   Benchmarking Terminology for AI Network Fabrics
   Authors: Fernando Calabria
            Carlos Pignataro
            Qin Wu
            Giuseppe Fioccola
            Sowjanya Reddy
   Name:    draft-calabria-bmwg-ai-fabric-terminology-04.txt
   Pages:   42
   Dates:   2026-08-12

Abstract:

   This document defines benchmarking terminology for evaluating
   Ethernet-based network fabrics used in distributed Artificial
   Intelligence (AI) training and inference workloads.  It consolidates
   and extends terms from "Benchmarking Terminology for Network
   Interconnect Devices" (RFC 1242) and "Data Center Benchmarking
   Terminology" (RFC 8238).  Definitions cover collective communication
   primitives, RDMA transport mechanisms (RoCEv2 and Ultra Ethernet
   Transport), congestion control behaviors, AI-specific Key Performance
   Indicators (KPIs), and fabric topology concepts.

   This document is a companion to the AI training and inference fabric
   benchmarking methodology documents.  Those documents are intended to
   be read together with the terminology defined here.  Where
   definitions herein overlap with the foundational benchmarking
   terminology in RFC 1242 or RFC 8238, this document provides AI fabric
   context extensions and refinements; the foundational definitions in
   those RFCs remain authoritative for general network benchmarking.

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