[mat-wg] Notes from the TTM workshop @RIPE63

Dear colleagues,

please find attached the notes from the brainstorm-meeting during RIPE63
in Vienna, where we had a room full of people bring up their experiences
and wishes for the future of the Test Traffic Measurement (TTM) service.
My apologies for the delay.

I am attaching the full, raw notes, for the historical record,
and a basis for further discussion.
However, you may prefer the summarized list (below).
Please add any comments and ideas.
We are working on the evolution plan and road-map, and all your feedback
is appreciated to guide us.


And finally, a poetic illustration of one of the concepts suggested at
the meeting.

Regards,
Vesna Manojlovic


Feature requests and updates to TTM (hardware and software)
* Improve interface so that non-technical people can get reports (two
    modes).  Make it easier to see the data in general
* Changes to the API to do your own presentations, reports, and
    integration into monitoring systems; more raw data
* Useful alarms which are configurable
* Multiple ethernet, insight into layer 3, TTM boxes talking to each
    other
* Antenai sharing
* Use taildaemon - share tailport amongst TTM users
* TCP port randomisation
* User-defined measurements
* Expanded information: where is the bottle neck, performance problems
    between two points
* Adjustment of sampling, higher sampling rate
* Open-source the software

New uses for TTM boxes, data
* Combine Atlas and TTM into an active measurement services system.
    TTM becomes an anchor and target - a sort of powerful Atlas probe
* Put data as quickly as possible in a central database and make it
    accessible, correlate with RIS

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Vesna Manojlovic                                 BECHA at ripe.net
Senior Community Builder                           +31205354444
for Measurements Tools          RIPE NCC        http://ripe.net

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