Test Plan and Results for Advancing RFC 2680 on the Standards Track
draft-ietf-ippm-testplan-rfc2680-05

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Subject: Document Action: 'Test Plan and Results for Advancing RFC 2680 on the Standards Track' to Informational RFC (draft-ietf-ippm-testplan-rfc2680-05.txt)

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Test Plan and Results for Advancing RFC 2680 on the Standards Track'
  (draft-ietf-ippm-testplan-rfc2680-05.txt) as Informational RFC

This document is the product of the IP Performance Metrics Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Spencer Dawkins and Martin Stiemerling.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ippm-testplan-rfc2680/

Ballot Text

Technical Summary

The document defines a plan for testing implementations 
of RFC 2680 on one-way packet loss metrics, based upon 
the requirements set out in RFC 2680 itself, in order to 
evaluate ambiguity in RFC 2680 that may lead to interoperability 
problems.and recommends the revision of RFC 2680 based 
on ambiguities found herein, with subsequent 
advancement of RFC 2680bis to Internet Standard.

Working Group Summary

The document has clear working group consensus for publication, 
and has been reviewed by several WG participants since its 
initial adoption as a working group item.

Document Quality

This document describes a test plan, but also reports on the 
results of these tests with two independent implementation, 

Personnel

The document shepherd is Brian Trammell. The responsible Area Director is Spencer Dawkins.

RFC Editor Note