BCP 170

RFC 6390

"Guidelines for Considering New Performance Metric Development", October 2011

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6390.txt
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Status:

BEST CURRENT PRACTICE

Authors:

A. Clark
B. Claise

Stream:

IETF

Source:

pmol (ops)

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Abstract

This document describes a framework and a process for developing Performance Metrics of protocols and applications transported over IETF-specified protocols. These metrics can be used to characterize traffic on live networks and services. This memo documents an Internet Best Current Practice.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.