Subject: [bmwg] Call for views: draft-vpolak-bmwg-plrsearch-03

From: "Maciek Konstantynowicz (mkonstan)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 19:54:17 +0000

Dear BMWG Contributors,

We would like to ask your view regarding draft-vpolak-bmwg-plrsearch-03:

1. During the previous BMWG meetings [1] [2], there was some interests in some parts of this draft in BMWG:
   a. Feedback received by us (authors) indicates that the specific algorithm chosen for PLRsearch may be out of scope of BMWG charter.
   b. However, generic guidelines for benchmarking networking systems exhibiting non-deterministic behaviour and associated nomenclature is very much in scope.
   c. We would like to re-confirm it with BMWG contributors.

2. If point 1. is cleared, we propose to proceed as follows:
   a. Extract the content covering the abstract algorithm (section 4.) and possibly also the known implementation part (section 5.).
   b. Leave the methodology and nomenclature content intact.
   c. Ask for draft adoption by BMWG.
   d. And then progress towards RFC.

3. Take the PLRsearch abstract algorithm (section 4.) and publish it as a separate whitepaper.

We do have a discussion slot regarding above in the IETF-109 BMWG meeting, slides are available at [3].

Cheers,
Maciek and Vratko (authors)

[1] minutes-105-bmwg, https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/105/materials/minutes-105-bmwg-00
[2] notes-ietf-107-bmwg, https://etherpad.ietf.org:9009/p/notes-ietf-107-bmwg?useMonospaceFont=true
[3] slides for draft-vpolak-bmwg-plrsearch-03, https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/109/materials/slides-109-bmwg-probabilistic-loss-ratio-search-00