CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_

Reported by Jim McQuaid/Wandel & Goltermann Technologies

Minutes of the Benchmarking Methodology Working Group (BMWG)

Twenty-eight people attended the meeting.

Scott Bradner opened the meeting with an announcement that Jim McQuaid
is the new BMWG Working Group Chair.  Scott then gave an overview of the
working group's activities and briefly reviewed the contents of the two
working documents.  He mentioned that both documents are available from
hsdndev.harvard.edu in the pub/bmwg directory.

The subject of adding modems and methods for testing bridges and routers
to the document was brought up.  It was thought that adding modems would
be straightforward.

The attendees then discussed the charter at some length, reviewing
aspects of the work which was done and the work which needed to be
addressed in the future.  The revised ``goals and milestones'' section
of the charter will be changed to reflect the future work of the BMWG
Working Group.

A survey of articles on benchmarking methodologies as well as research
being done in this area will be conducted and reported on at the next
meeting.


Attendees

Anders Baardsgaad        anders@cc.uit.no
Tom Benkart              teb@acc.com
Jon Boone                boone@psc.edu
Peter Cameron            cameron@xylint.co.uk
John Chang               jrc@uswest.com
Robert Fink              rlfink@lbl.gov
Kathy Huber              khuber@wellfleet.com
Rick Jones               raj@cup.hp.com
Merike Kaeo              mkaeo@cisco.com
Sean Kennedy             liam@nic.near.net
Edwin King               eek@atc.boeing.com
Andrew Knutsen           andrewk@sco.com
Dan Magorian             magorian@ni.umd.edu
Jim McQuaid              mcquaid@wg.com
Stephen Miller           smiller@bbn.com
Dennis Morris            morris@altair.disa.mil
William Palter           palter@tgv.com
Brad Passwaters          bjp@eng.umd.edu
Eddie Renoux             elr0262@newsit2.mcdata.com
Steven Richardson        sjr@merit.edu
Allen Rochkind           Allen_Rochkind@3com.com
Paul Serice              serice@cos.com
Erik Sherk               sherk@sura.net
Vladimir Sukonnik        sukonnik@process.com
Larry Tepper             ltepper@compatible.com
Dean Throop              throop@dg-rtp.dg.com
Jerry Toporek            jt@mentat.com
Cathy Wittbrodt          cjw@barrnet.net