Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!MITRE-GATEWAY.ARPA!gross
From: gross@MITRE-GATEWAY.ARPA.UUCP
Newsgroups: mod.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Gateway Monitoring.
Message-ID: <8701211527.AA06816@mitre-gateway.arpa>
Date: Wed, 21-Jan-87 10:27:36 EST
Article-I.D.: mitre-ga.8701211527.AA06816
Posted: Wed Jan 21 10:27:36 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 21-Jan-87 20:27:28 EST
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The ARPA Internet
Lines: 14
Approved: tcp-ip@sri-nic.arpa

If the measure of a hot topic is the number of messages generated per
unit time, then gateway monitoring is the latest sizzle.

Mitre is instrumenting a gateway work in order to 1) make baseline 
traffic profile studies, 2) perform congestion control experiments 
and then 3) compare results.  We are not designing a new monitoring 
protocol, but I agree that one is desperately needed.  Working together
is a clear win and I agree that the IETF can provide a timely forum.

I will put this on the agenda for a half day or day long workshop
at the upcoming IETF.  (There was already a performance workshop 
planned and this will replace it.)  

Phill