STANDARDIZATION

We provide here a summary of the standardization efforts undertken by the partners of the project, with a list of published RFCs and drafts

Highlights

Brian Trammell from ETH is the chair of the IETF IP Performance Metrics WG

Mirja Kühlewind from ETH is the chair of the IETF RTP Media Congestion Avoidance Techniques WG

Brian Trammell and Mirja Kühlewind from ETH co-chair the How Ossified is the Protocol Stack (HOPS) proposed Research Group in the IRTF.

Current RFCs

• RFC 7119: Operation of the IPFIX Protocol on IPFIX Mediators (February 2014). The RFC defines how the IPFIX protocol works on mediators (devices which sit in-band on an IPFIX stream and modify it, e.g. mPlane components for filtering, aggregating, and federating streams of indirectly exported data using the IPFIX protocol).

• RFC 7125: Revision of the tcpControlBits IPFIX Information Element (February 2014). The RFC defines an (already implemented in QoF and python-ipfix) enhancement to the export of TCP flags bits in IPFIX, allowing it to be used for the measurement of ECN.
• RFC 7373: Textual Representation of IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Abstract Data Types (September 2014). The RFC defines textual representations for IPFIX primitive types to be compatible with the JSON representations used for equivalent primitives in mPlane.

 Current IETF drafts

• IETF: Considerations for IP broadcast and multicast protocol designers (19. Oct. 2015)
• IETF: mPlane Protocol Specification (27 Aug. 2015)
• IETF: Problem Statement and Requirements for a More Accurate ECN Feedback (12 Feb. 2014)
• IETF: ALTO for querying LMAP Results (21 Oct. 2013)
• IETF: A mechanism for ECN Path Probing and Fallback (10 Sep. 2013)
• IETF: More Accurate ECN Feedback in TCP (20 Jun. 2013)
• IETF: An LMAP application for IPFIX (21 Feb. 2013)
• IETF: Textual Representation of IPFIX Abstract Data Types (published as RFC 7373)
• IETF: TCP modifications for Congestion Exposure (10 May 2012)
• IETF: IPv6 Destination Option for ConEx (12 Mar. 2012)