Internet Assigned Numbers Authority Performance Metrics Created 2020-03-19 Last Updated 2024-01-18 Available Formats [IMG] XML [IMG] HTML [IMG] Plain text Registries included below • Performance Metrics Registry • Performance Metric Name Elements - Metric Type • Performance Metric Name Elements - Method • Performance Metric Name Elements - SubTypeMethod • Performance Metric Name Elements - Spec • Performance Metric Name Elements - Units • Performance Metric Name Elements - Output Performance Metrics Registry Registration Procedure(s) Specification Required Expert(s) Greg Mirsky, Michael Scharf Reference [RFC8911] Note Summary category shown. Complete registry entries available in the URIs of each row. Available Formats [IMG] CSV Identifier Name URI Description Reference Change Version Controller 0 Reserved [RFC8912] IETF This metric assesses the delay of a stream of packets exchanged between two hosts (which are the two measurement points). The 1 RTDelay_Active_IP-UDP-Periodic_RFC8912sec4_Seconds_95Percentile RTDelay_Active_IP-UDP-Periodic_RFC8912sec4_Seconds_95Percentile output is the [RFC8912] IETF 1.0 round-trip delay for all successfully exchanged packets expressed as the 95th percentile of their conditional delay distribution. This metric assesses the loss ratio of a stream of packets exchanged between two hosts (which are the two 2 RTLoss_Active_IP-UDP-Periodic_RFC8912sec4_Percent_LossRatio RTLoss_Active_IP-UDP-Periodic_RFC8912sec4_Percent_LossRatio measurement [RFC8912][RFC IETF 1.0 points). The Errata 6758] output is the round-trip loss ratio for all successfully exchanged packets expressed as a percentage. This metric assesses packet delay variation with respect to the minimum delay observed on 3 OWPDV_Active_IP-UDP-Periodic_RFC8912sec5_Seconds_95Percentile OWPDV_Active_IP-UDP-Periodic_RFC8912sec5_Seconds_95Percentile the periodic [RFC8912] IETF 1.0 stream. The output is expressed as the 95th percentile of the packet delay variation distribution. This is a metric for DNS Response performance from a network user's perspective, for a specific named resource. The metric can be 4 RTDNS_Active_IP-UDP-Poisson_RFC8912sec6_Seconds_Raw RTDNS_Active_IP-UDP-Poisson_RFC8912sec6_Seconds_Raw measured [RFC8912] IETF 1.0 repeatedly using different resource names. This metric assesses the response time, the interval from the query transmission to the response. This is a metric for DNS Response performance from a network user's perspective, for a specific named resource. The metric can be measured 5 RLDNS_Active_IP-UDP-Poisson_RFC8912sec6_Logical_Raw RLDNS_Active_IP-UDP-Poisson_RFC8912sec6_Logical_Raw repeatedly [RFC8912] IETF 1.0 using different resource names. This metric indicates that the response was deemed lost. In other words, the response time exceeded the maximum waiting time. This metric assesses the delay of a stream of packets exchanged between two hosts (or measurement points) and 6 OWDelay_Active_IP-UDP-Poisson-Payload250B_RFC8912sec7_Seconds_95Percentile OWDelay_Active_IP-UDP-Poisson-Payload250B_RFC8912sec7_Seconds_95Percentile reports the [RFC8912] IETF 1.0 95Percentile of one-way delay for all successfully exchanged packets based on their conditional delay distribution. This metric assesses the delay of a stream of packets exchanged between two hosts (or measurement points) and 7 OWDelay_Active_IP-UDP-Poisson-Payload250B_RFC8912sec7_Seconds_Mean OWDelay_Active_IP-UDP-Poisson-Payload250B_RFC8912sec7_Seconds_Mean reports the [RFC8912] IETF 1.0 Mean of one-way delay for all successfully exchanged packets based on their conditional delay distribution. This metric assesses the delay of a stream of packets exchanged between two hosts (or measurement points) and 8 OWDelay_Active_IP-UDP-Poisson-Payload250B_RFC8912sec7_Seconds_Min OWDelay_Active_IP-UDP-Poisson-Payload250B_RFC8912sec7_Seconds_Min reports the [RFC8912] IETF 1.0 Min of one-way delay for all successfully exchanged packets based on their conditional delay distribution. This metric assesses the delay of a stream of packets exchanged between two hosts (or measurement points) and 9 OWDelay_Active_IP-UDP-Poisson-Payload250B_RFC8912sec7_Seconds_Max OWDelay_Active_IP-UDP-Poisson-Payload250B_RFC8912sec7_Seconds_Max reports the [RFC8912] IETF 1.0 Max of one-way delay for all successfully exchanged packets based on their conditional delay distribution. This metric assesses the delay of a stream of packets exchanged between two hosts (or measurement points) and 10 OWDelay_Active_IP-UDP-Poisson-Payload250B_RFC8912sec7_Seconds_StdDev OWDelay_Active_IP-UDP-Poisson-Payload250B_RFC8912sec7_Seconds_StdDev reports the [RFC8912] IETF 1.0 StdDev of one-way delay for all successfully exchanged packets based on their conditional delay distribution. This metric assesses the loss ratio of a stream of packets exchanged between two hosts (which 11 OWLoss_Active_IP-UDP-Poisson-Payload250B_RFC8912sec7_Percent_LossRatio OWLoss_Active_IP-UDP-Poisson-Payload250B_RFC8912sec7_Percent_LossRatio are the two [RFC8912][RFC IETF 1.0 measurement Errata 6758] points). The output is the one-way loss ratio for all transmitted packets expressed as a percentage. This metric assesses the delay of a stream of packets exchanged between two hosts (or measurement points) and 12 OWDelay_Active_IP-UDP-Periodic20m-Payload142B_RFC8912sec8_Seconds_95Percentile OWDelay_Active_IP-UDP-Periodic20m-Payload142B_RFC8912sec8_Seconds_95Percentile reports the [RFC8912] IETF 1.0 95Percentile one-way delay for all successfully exchanged packets based on their conditional delay distribution. This metric assesses the delay of a stream of packets exchanged between two hosts (or measurement 13 OWDelay_Active_IP-UDP-Periodic20m-Payload142B_RFC8912sec8_Seconds_Mean OWDelay_Active_IP-UDP-Periodic20m-Payload142B_RFC8912sec8_Seconds_Mean points) and [RFC8912] IETF 1.0 reports the Mean one-way delay for all successfully exchanged packets based on their conditional delay distribution. This metric assesses the delay of a stream of packets exchanged between two hosts (or measurement 14 OWDelay_Active_IP-UDP-Periodic20m-Payload142B_RFC8912sec8_Seconds_Min OWDelay_Active_IP-UDP-Periodic20m-Payload142B_RFC8912sec8_Seconds_Min points) and [RFC8912] IETF 1.0 reports the Min one-way delay for all successfully exchanged packets based on their conditional delay distribution. This metric assesses the delay of a stream of packets exchanged between two hosts (or measurement 15 OWDelay_Active_IP-UDP-Periodic20m-Payload142B_RFC8912sec8_Seconds_Max OWDelay_Active_IP-UDP-Periodic20m-Payload142B_RFC8912sec8_Seconds_Max points) and [RFC8912] IETF 1.0 reports the Max one-way delay for all successfully exchanged packets based on their conditional delay distribution. This metric assesses the delay of a stream of packets exchanged between two hosts (or measurement points) and 16 OWDelay_Active_IP-UDP-Periodic20m-Payload142B_RFC8912sec8_Seconds_StdDev OWDelay_Active_IP-UDP-Periodic20m-Payload142B_RFC8912sec8_Seconds_StdDev reports the [RFC8912] IETF 1.0 StdDev one-way delay for all successfully exchanged packets based on their conditional delay distribution. This metric assesses the loss ratio of a stream of packets exchanged between two hosts (which 17 OWLoss_Active_IP-UDP-Periodic20m-Payload142B_RFC8912sec8_Percent_LossRatio OWLoss_Active_IP-UDP-Periodic20m-Payload142B_RFC8912sec8_Percent_LossRatio are the two [RFC8912][RFC IETF 1.0 measurement Errata 6758] points). The output is the one-way loss ratio for all transmitted packets expressed as a percentage. This metric assesses the delay of a stream of ICMP packets exchanged between two hosts (which are the two measurement points). The 18 RTDelay_Active_IP-ICMP-SendOnRcv_RFC8912sec9_Seconds_Mean RTDelay_Active_IP-ICMP-SendOnRcv_RFC8912sec9_Seconds_Mean output is the [RFC8912] IETF 1.0 round-trip delay for all successfully exchanged packets expressed as the Mean of their conditional delay distribution. This metric assesses the delay of a stream of ICMP packets exchanged between two hosts (which are the two measurement points). The 19 RTDelay_Active_IP-ICMP-SendOnRcv_RFC8912sec9_Seconds_Min RTDelay_Active_IP-ICMP-SendOnRcv_RFC8912sec9_Seconds_Min output is the [RFC8912] IETF 1.0 round-trip delay for all successfully exchanged packets expressed as the Min of their conditional delay distribution. This metric assesses the delay of a stream of ICMP packets exchanged between two hosts (which are the two measurement points). The 20 RTDelay_Active_IP-ICMP-SendOnRcv_RFC8912sec9_Seconds_Max RTDelay_Active_IP-ICMP-SendOnRcv_RFC8912sec9_Seconds_Max output is the [RFC8912] IETF 1.0 round-trip delay for all successfully exchanged packets expressed as the Max of their conditional delay distribution. This metric assesses the loss ratio of a stream of ICMP packets exchanged between two hosts (which are the two [RFC8912][RFC 21 RTLoss_Active_IP-ICMP-SendOnRcv_RFC8912sec9_Percent_LossRatio RTLoss_Active_IP-ICMP-SendOnRcv_RFC8912sec9_Percent_LossRatio measurement Errata 6758] IETF 1.0 points). The output is the round-trip loss ratio for all transmitted packets expressed as a percentage. This metric assesses the round-trip delay of TCP packets constituting a single connection, exchanged between two hosts. We consider the measurement of round-trip delay based on a single 22 RTDelay_Passive_IP-TCP_RFC8912sec10_Seconds_Mean RTDelay_Passive_IP-TCP_RFC8912sec10_Seconds_Mean Observation [RFC8912] IETF 1.0 Point (OP) [RFC7011] somewhere in the network. The output is the round-trip delay for all successfully exchanged packets expressed as the Mean of their conditional delay distribution. This metric assesses the round-trip delay of TCP packets constituting a single connection, exchanged between two hosts. We consider the measurement of round-trip delay based on a single 23 RTDelay_Passive_IP-TCP_RFC8912sec10_Seconds_Min RTDelay_Passive_IP-TCP_RFC8912sec10_Seconds_Min Observation [RFC8912] IETF 1.0 Point (OP) [RFC7011] somewhere in the network. The output is the round-trip delay for all successfully exchanged packets expressed as the Min of their conditional delay distribution. This metric assesses the round-trip delay of TCP packets constituting a single connection, exchanged between two hosts. We consider the measurement of round-trip delay based on a single 24 RTDelay_Passive_IP-TCP_RFC8912sec10_Seconds_Max RTDelay_Passive_IP-TCP_RFC8912sec10_Seconds_Max Observation [RFC8912] IETF 1.0 Point (OP) [RFC7011] somewhere in the network. The output is the round-trip delay for all successfully exchanged packets expressed as the Max of their conditional delay distribution. RTDelay Singleton: This metric assesses the round-trip delay of TCP packets initiating a single connection (or 3-way handshake), exchanged between two hosts. We 25 RTDelay_Passive_IP-TCP-HS_RFC8912sec10_Seconds_Singleton RTDelay_Passive_IP-TCP-HS_RFC8912sec10_Seconds_Singleton consider the [RFC8912] IETF 1.0 measurement of round-trip delay based on a single Observation Point (OP) [RFC7011] somewhere in the network. The output is a single measurement of Round-trip delay, or Singleton. This metric assesses the estimated loss count for TCP packets constituting a single connection, exchanged between two hosts. We consider the 26 RTLoss_Passive_IP-TCP_RFC8912sec10_Packet_Count RTLoss_Passive_IP-TCP_RFC8912sec10_Packet_Count measurement [RFC8912] IETF 1.0 of round-trip delay based on a single Observation Point (OP) [RFC7011] somewhere in the network. The output is the estimated loss count for the measurement interval. Performance Metric Name Elements - Metric Type Registration Procedure(s) Specification Required Expert(s) Greg Mirsky, Michael Scharf Reference [RFC8911] Available Formats [IMG] CSV Identifier Name Description Reference Change Controller MetricType RTDelay Round-Trip Delay [RFC8911] IETF MetricType RTDNS Response Time Domain Name Service [RFC8911] IETF MetricType RLDNS Response Loss Domain Name Service [RFC8911] IETF MetricType OWDelay One-Way Delay [RFC8911] IETF MetricType RTLoss Round-Trip Loss [RFC8911] IETF MetricType OWLoss One-Way Loss [RFC8911] IETF MetricType OWPDV One-Way Packet Delay Verification [RFC8911] IETF MetricType OWIPDV One-Way Inter-Packet Delay Variation [RFC8911] IETF MetricType OWReorder One-Way Packet Reordering [RFC8911] IETF MetricType OWDuplic One-Way Packet Duplication [RFC8911] IETF MetricType OWBTC One-Way Bulk Transport Capacity [RFC8911] IETF MetricType OWMBM One-Way Model-Based Metric [RFC8911] IETF MetricType SPMonitor Single-Point Monitor [RFC8911] IETF MetricType MPMonitor Multi-Point Monitor [RFC8911] IETF Performance Metric Name Elements - Method Registration Procedure(s) Specification Required Expert(s) Greg Mirsky, Michael Scharf Reference [RFC8911] Available Formats [IMG] CSV Identifier Name Description Reference Change Controller Method Active depends on a dedicated measurement packet stream and observations of the stream as [RFC8911] IETF described in [RFC7799] Method Passive depends *solely* on observation of one or more existing packet streams as described in [RFC8911] IETF [RFC7799] Method Hybrid Type 1 Hybrid Type I obervations on one stream that combine both Active Methods and Passive [RFC8911] IETF Methods as described in [RFC7799] Method Hybrid Type 2 Hybrid Type II obervations on two or more streams that combine both Active Methods and [RFC8911] IETF Passive Methods as described in [RFC7799] Method Spatial spatial metric as described in [RFC5644] [RFC8911] IETF Performance Metric Name Elements - SubTypeMethod Registration Procedure(s) Specification Required Expert(s) Greg Mirsky, Michael Scharf Reference [RFC8911] Available Formats [IMG] CSV Identifier Name Description Reference Change Controller SubTypeMethod ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol [RFC8911] IETF SubTypeMethod IP Internet Protocol [RFC8911] IETF SubTypeMethod DSCPxx where xx is replaced by a Diffserv code point [RFC8911] IETF SubTypeMethod UDP User Datagram Protocol [RFC8911] IETF SubTypeMethod TCP Transport Control Protocol [RFC8911] IETF SubTypeMethod QUIC QUIC transport protocol [RFC8911] IETF SubTypeMethod HS Hand-Shake, such as TCP's 3-way HS [RFC8911] IETF SubTypeMethod Poisson packet generation using Poisson distribution [RFC8911] IETF SubTypeMethod Periodic periodic packet generation [RFC8911] IETF SubTypeMethod SendOnRcv Sender keeps one packet in transit by sending when previous packet arrives [RFC8911] IETF SubTypeMethod PayloadxxxxB where xxxx is replaced by an integer, the number of octets or 8-bit Bytes in the [RFC8911] IETF Payload SubTypeMethod SustaninedBurst capacity test, worst case [RFC8911] IETF SubTypeMethod StandingQueue test of bottleneck queue behavior [RFC8911] IETF Performance Metric Name Elements - Spec Registration Procedure(s) Specification Required Expert(s) Greg Mirsky, Michael Scharf Reference [RFC8911] Note Spec contains an immutable document identifier combined with a document section identifier for the specifying document. See Section 7.1.2 of [RFC8911]. Available Formats [IMG] CSV Identifier Reference Spec [RFC8911] Performance Metric Name Elements - Units Registration Procedure(s) Specification Required Expert(s) Greg Mirsky, Michael Scharf Reference [RFC8911] Available Formats [IMG] CSV Identifier Name Description Reference Change Controller Units Seconds [RFC8911] IETF Units Ratio unitless [RFC8911] IETF Units Percent value multiplied by 100% [RFC8911] IETF Units Logical 1 or 0 [RFC8911] IETF Units Packets [RFC8911] IETF Units BPS bits per second [RFC8911] IETF Units PPS packets per second [RFC8911] IETF Units EventTotal for unitless counts [RFC8911] IETF Units Multiple more than one type of unit [RFC8911] IETF Units Enumerated a list of outcomes [RFC8911] IETF Units Unitless [RFC8911] IETF Performance Metric Name Elements - Output Registration Procedure(s) Specification Required Expert(s) Greg Mirsky, Michael Scharf Reference [RFC8911] Available Formats [IMG] CSV Identifier Name Description Reference Change Controller Output Singleton [RFC8911] IETF Output Raw multiple singletons [RFC8911] IETF Output Count [RFC8911] IETF Output Minimum [RFC8911] IETF Output Maximum [RFC8911] IETF Output Median [RFC8911] IETF Output Mean [RFC8911] IETF Output 95Percentile 95th Percentile [RFC8911] IETF Output 99Percentile 99th Percentile [RFC8911] IETF Output StdDev standard deviation [RFC8911] IETF Output Variance [RFC8911] IETF Output PFI pass, fail, inconclusive [RFC8911] IETF Output FlowRecords descriptions of flows observed [RFC8911] IETF Output LossRatio lost packets to total packets, <=1 [RFC8911] IETF Licensing Terms