There are currently several different organizations working on various
measurement and performance 'standards' for the Internet and IP-related
networks.
IETF has created a couple of working groups working on benchmarking
and metrics.
IOPS says they plan to be a point of contact for developing various
industry-wide technical procedures.
ATIS/T1 (an ANSI standards organization) is developing two vital Internet
performance standards and three technical reports.
ANX, The Automotive Network Exchange, has documented several requirements
including metrics for service quality.
Bellcore has some Internet related work in their new GR standards.
And, of course while it doesn't develop anything formal, NANOG has
occasional presentations from various other industry organizations.
Most of the above have said in their press releases they are working
with other standards bodies, but it isn't very clear how much inter-
organizational communications actual occurs.
And I suspect there are a few more I don't know about. It would be
nice if this work could be consolidated into one place. I, for one,
don't have the time or the money to even attempt active involvement
in half these groups.
There are currently several different organizations working on various
measurement and performance 'standards' for the Internet and IP-related
networks.
IETF has created a couple of working groups working on benchmarking
and metrics.
IOPS says they plan to be a point of contact for developing various
industry-wide technical procedures.
ATIS/T1 (an ANSI standards organization) is developing two vital Internet
performance standards and three technical reports.
Actually, a fair bit was done in ANSI already. I was a member of a
different ANSI committee, X3, had a digital communications performance
working group, X3S35, which produced two standards,
X3.102 User-oriented data communications performance parameters
X3.141 Measurement methods for the above (basically statistical techniques)
The architecture in these standards was the basis of CCITT X.140, and the
CCITT X.130-139 parameter family for circuit-switched and packet-switched
performance. In turn, these fed into the ANSI T1 committee cited by
Sean; the focus of this committee was telecommunications rather than data
network.
Most of these working groups, and a late 1970s effort on the Federal
Telecommunications Standards Committee (FED-STD-1033) that preceded them,
were chaired by Neal Seitz of the NTIA.