It includes the development of tools with the goal of widespread deployment of measurement platforms for diagnosing performance problems, baseline measurements to see how traffic evolves, assessing performance delivered by IP clouds. Vern suspects the NTP will be good enough. The emphasis for NIMI is to provide an infrastructure on which, for example, Surveyor or other tools could be installed. After some discussion it was agreed that it may be premature to define new capabilities, rather it might be more rewarding to see what exists and try it out with the data XIWG are going to gather. Cindy Bickerstaff of Intel will provide information on this, what it requires and how to calculate it.
Mission is to measure Internet performance.
Flagship product is Keynote Perspective. They basically measure the response time to get an URL, repeating the measurement every 15 minutes. Keynote locations in a given city may have multiple ISP connections. They are seeing an increase in sites with connections to multi ISPs. The ISPs are reselling Keynote measurement services and so are willing to collocate Keynote sites.