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A Framework for Integrated Services and RSVP over ATM

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Network Working Group                                 E. Crawley, Editor
Request for Comments: 2382                                Argon Networks
Category: Informational                                        L. Berger
                                                            Fore Systems
                                                               S. Berson
                                                                    ISI
                                                                F. Baker
                                                           Cisco Systems
                                                               M. Borden
                                                            Bay Networks
                                                             J. Krawczyk
                                               ArrowPoint Communications
                                                             August 1998


         A Framework for Integrated Services and RSVP over ATM

Status of this Memo

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does
   not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of this
   memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   This document outlines the issues and framework related to providing
   IP Integrated Services with RSVP over ATM. It provides an overall
   approach to the problem(s) and related issues.  These issues and
   problems are to be addressed in further documents from the ISATM
   subgroup of the ISSLL working group.

1. Introduction

   The Internet currently has one class of service normally referred to
   as "best effort."  This service is typified by first-come, first-
   serve scheduling at each hop in the network.  Best effort service has
   worked well for electronic mail, World Wide Web (WWW) access, file
   transfer (e.g. ftp), etc.  For real-time traffic such as voice and
   video, the current Internet has performed well only across unloaded
   portions of the network.  In order to provide quality real-time
   traffic, new classes of service and a QoS signalling protocol are






Crawley, et. al.             Informational
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