Minutes of the RTFM Meeting, Chicago IETF, Tue 25 Aug 98 -------------------------------------------------------- (Minutes taken by Stephen Stibler) The WG reviewed its current documents, and decided to produce its Applicability Statement as a new (fifth) Internet Draft. There was some discussion of Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs) and Prefix Lengths as they appear in the 'New Attributes' I-D. Users do find these useful, so we agreed to keep them. RMON Protocol Identifiers were mentioned, but the consensus was that no further attributes should be added to the current draft. The WG's goals are now to publish one further revision of the Internet Drafts by mid-September, to complete WG Last Call by early October, and to submit them to IESG mid-October. The requested RFC status will be: Informational Architecture, Applicability Statement, SRL Proposed Standard Meter MIB Experimental New Attributes Other possible activities for the WG were discussed. There was interest in observing dynamic behavior of flows, i.e. watching them to determine what 'protocol' was running, for example being able to recognise RealAudio or IP telephony sessions. This is out of the WG's current scope; WG members are encouraged to pursue this further on the RTFM mailing list. Stephen Stibler reported on the IBM meter and RDR, its meter reader program. Interoperability with the NeTraMet manager programs (e.g. nifty) has been well demonstrated, and plans are in place for further deployment and testing. Nevil Brownlee reported on NeTraMet; he has been working on an OC12MON version and on implementing the ASN attributes in the Unix and PC versions. Nevil gave a presentation covering NetFlowMet (a NeTraMet meter using Cisco NetFlow data as input) and srl (an optimizing compiler for SRL).