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[Russ Hobby <>]

Hi,

Below is a call for participants for the End-to-End Performance Initiative 
Measurement Workshop.  If know of someone that is working in the area of 
performance measurement, please pass it along.

Russ
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Internet2 End-to-End Performance Initiative Measurement Workshop
30-31 January 2002
Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, Arizona


In an effort to advance the creation of an end-to-end measurement 
infrastructure, the Internet2 End-to-End Performance Initiative (E2Epi) 
will host a Measurement Workshop following the Joint Techs Meeting in 
Tempe.   End-to-end performance involves the entire path, including the 
perception of the end-user, the applications program, the operating system, 
the computer hardware, and all portions of the local and wide area 
networks.  Ideally, to obtain true measurement of end-to-end performance, a 
measurement infrastructure is required that can provide information in all 
these areas of the path.  Initially, only those doing performance research 
may use the measurement infrastructure, but eventually it should be able to 
scale its use to allow an end-user or application to query the health of 
the network to determine the acquired performance or locate a problem on a 
particular path.

There are many ongoing and planned efforts involving performance 
measurement on the different portions of the end-to-end path.  This 
workshop will bring together those involved in these efforts so that they 
may learn what others are doing in the area, and to see if a general 
coordination can be leveraged to accomplish more than the individual 
efforts.  One goal of the workshop will be to begin work on a definition 
for Common Performance Data Sets so that it can be implemented by all 
measurement projects to create a shared common infrastructure among 
multiple projects.  Another might be to define a measurement architecture 
that can scale to global use.

Attendance at the workshop will be restricted to those actively involved in 
the area of performance measurement.  If you working in this area and would 
like to attend, please send a description of your work to Russ Hobby 
.  You may also want to review the Web pages for the 
Internet2 E2Epi at: http://www.internet2.edu/e2epi.