ISMA WORKSHOP

CONSENSUS ON ACTION								1


	*Can Create Measurement Methodology
				mailing list for strawman document,
				workshop for refinement.
	*	Input to Business Side of ISPs, NAPs, etc.
				create buy-in, identify benefit to ISP
	*	Establishes on-going availability of data
				and cooperative working relationships
	*	Working Group for on-going refinement.

		 



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	*Clarified Concepts: RAS, QoS, Best Effort
					w.r.t. service definition.
	*	Need process to create IP (BE) service
				definition;  “set of metrics”, “how to
				tell you’re getting the service promised.
	

		 



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CONSENSUS ON ACTION								3

	*Reliability (RAS): schism between:
				*	Get RAS asap;
				*	RAS is too hard and unnecessary.
	*	Reflects current transition from research
				network to commercial infrastructure.
	*	RAS is significantly impeded by current 		
				rapid growth.
	*	Need for further service definitions for RAS.

		 



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CONSENSUS ON ACTION								4


	*Internet Overload: schism between:
			*	“Just add more capacity”
			*	“Change pricing model to deter
				  inefficient use.”
	*	Multi-QoS model (int-serv) solves some of 	
		this.
	
		 



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CONSENSUS ON ACTION								5


	*Government funding can facilitate and
				catalyze work going forward.
	*	Especially measurement models and
				analysis techniques reflecting the
				mathematics of real traffic.