Intel will note exceptions and manually contact ISPs to understand why there are problems and work to resolve them. They use heuristics such as two sampling intervals with no reachability, or big changes in packet loss for a set of related sites. The first meeting of this group was June 1997. If one can detect problems using passive measurements then one can initiate active monitoring. Thus passive measurement could reduce the need for active monitoring.
Most logs provide bytes and time so a measure of throughput is available.
One would like to add information on server loading, network loading, cpu utilization, egress location, DNS resolution time, time to set up TCP connection. The audience is the server software vendors, and server operators. If one could count on clients sending in the NetMedic logs this would also enable passive monitoring, however this is not realistically possible. Thus the focus here is to use the server logs which takes less coordination to acquire. This is targetted for completion by April 9 th , Cindy Bickerstaff will be making a presentation to the Intel marketing folks on this day.