QUESTIONS FOR ISMA PARTICIPANTS:

1. In your opinion,
   a. Why is it important for ISPs to invest their limited resources (people, equipment, $$$s) in traffic measurement and analysis?

   What type of investments would reap maximum value for the ISPs? for end users?

   b. The research/higher ed communities and government are engaged in efforts to develop more robust tools and deploy a measurement infrastructure across the Internet.
   Do you have any recommendations for how these efforts can help to produce meaningful insights into current traffic conditions and scalability issues, including what aspects of measurement/analysis these communities should pursue jointly with ISPs?

   c. What role should other end-users (e.g., content providers, companies with mission-critical networking requirements) play in this process?

2. What do you view as today's most critical challenges relating to traffic measurement and analysis, e.g., challenges wrt WAN measurement, measurement across ISP clouds, traffic flow characterization, network simulations?

3. What should the community (ISPs, research, users) be considering wrt...
   a. acquiring, storing and analyzing data?

   b. level of detail of raw data and resulting analyses available to the general public? available to participating organizations?

   c. the appropriate organizational structures / strategies for collecting and analyzing distributed Internet traffic data?

4. Are there any specific measurement or analysis tools you feel are particularly useful? please describe.

5. Please provide any additional comments / position statements / URLs that you would like to share with ISMA participants.

---

Responses from ISMA Participants - grouped by community

ISPs

Research Community / R&E Networks

Commercial Sector, inc. h/w and s/w vendors

---

Last Updated 9 April 1997

Questions should be directed to Tracie Monk tmonk@caida.org