| New proposed IETF standard |
| Thursday, 19 November 2009 12:53 |
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OneLab researchers from Fraunhofer and ETH Zurich, among other contributors, have written a new proposed standard which supports research on the Future Internet. Released in October 2009 by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), proposed standard RFC 5655, entitled "Specification of the IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) File Format", defines a standardized format for storing network traffic information. The authors of this document will provide the proposed solution as a standard service on PlanetLab Europe - open federated research platform and flagship testbed of the OneLab project.
Co-author Dr Tanja Zseby of OneLab partner Fraunhofer is OneLab's lead researcher on testbed monitoring and the leader of OneLab2 WP5: Packet Tracking. RFC5655 will contribute to this workpackage by providing a common format for storing information from packet tracking tools. Users of packet tracking services in PlanetLab Europe can record their results in the same format, leading to a significant improvement regarding the comparability of results. The common format also encourages the use of common interfaces for analysis tools and the sharing of experimental data among scientists. For further details, see full text of RFC 5655. |
