Re: draft-ietf-tewg-measure-05.txt comments

Jim, Jerry, etal:
Your comments are indeed helpful.  I have agreed with Wai to try a new 
version of our draft, based on the feedback we have had in the last 
couple of weeks.  It will take me  a while to do what is proposed -- 
which is significant "thinning" and re-organizing of the document --  in 
your comments, but I am willing.    As I do this, I may need to clarify 
some of your comments and I will mail the list to do so.  

Yours,
Dr. Richard W. Tibbs



Ash, Gerald R (Jerry), ALABS wrote:

>Jim,
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>Your detailed comments and suggestions are very helpful, and should help improve the quality of the document.  
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>I have some comments below on Tom's and your comments.
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>Thanks,
>Jerry
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>Jim> Flow measurement is a deep-hole, we should either defer to other
>Jim> standardization efforts on this, or we need to be a lot more
>Jim> concrete on what we need to know here.	
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>Tom> 	Defer to the IPFX WG that is tackling this problem right now.
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>Let's be more concrete in the TEM draft re flow measurement requirements.  I don't see a lot on TE measurement requirements in the IPFIX charter or requirements document http://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipfix-reqs-09.txt.  Let's be sure all the requirements get stated.
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>Jim> " Need for higher order statistics... "  push it to the offline hosts
>Jim> "Need for packet-sampled..."  "Need for offline bulk file 
>Jim> transfer..." The need needs to be better justified or removed.
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>Tom> 	I asked to have the offline stuff added. For the
>Tom> collection of a traffic matrix, as you know, this 
>Tom> entails the collection of a lot of data especially on
>Tom> big core routers. It is preferable to use offline
>Tom> bulk file transfer mechanisms such as NetFlow (being
>Tom> standardized in IPFX now) or offline SNMP file transfers
>Tom> of statistics snapshots.  This reduces the overhead of
>Tom> the box having to service network management requests,
>Tom> and also reduces the amount of network mgmt overhead
>Tom> required to fetch the same amount of data if you 
>Tom> collect your data as one big batch at some longer periodic
>Tom> interval.
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>Quite unclear that moving massive amounts of data for offline processing is always 'preferable' to online statistics to meet all requirements.  Data collection/summarization in the 'big core routers', e.g., on a node-pair basis, is very desirable for traffic matrix derivation in some applications.
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