RE: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-tewg-measure-06.txt

Bert and all,
  Many thanks for the AD review and the subsequent comments.
We have now completed our revision of the TE Measurement draft
based on your inputs.  The main body of document has been much
shortened and streamlined - with requirements clearly identified.
Supporting materials have been moved to Appendices.
  Please review.
Thanks, Wai Sum

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Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-tewg-measure-06.txt


A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
directories.
This draft is a work item of the Internet Traffic Engineering Working
Group of the IETF.

	Title		: Requirements for Internet Traffic Engineering 
                          Measurement
	Author(s)	: W. Lai, R. Tibbs, S. Van den Berghe
	Filename	: draft-ietf-tewg-measure-06.txt
	Pages		: 27
	Date		: 2003-7-24
	
In this document, we identify requirements for supporting the 
traffic engineering of IP networks.  Requirements for traffic 
measurement in service provider environments are presented and 
justified, and related issues are discussed. 
Highlights of requirements are: 
1. To aid network dimensioning, mechanisms to collect node-pair-
based traffic data are required to facilitate the derivation of per-
service-class traffic matrix statistics.  
2. For service assurance, the use of higher-order statistics is 
required. 
3. To preserve representative traffic detail at manageable sample 
volumes, packet-sampled measurements are required. 
4. To manage large volumes of measured data, use of bulk transfer 
and filtering/aggregation mechanisms are required.

A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tewg-measure-06.txt