Network Working Group S. Herzog
Request for Comments: 2751 IPHighway
Category: Standards Track January 2000
Signaled Preemption Priority Policy Element
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This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
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Abstract
This document describes a preemption priority policy element for use
by signaled policy based admission protocols (such as [RSVP] and
[COPS]).
Preemption priority defines a relative importance (rank) within the
set of flows competing to be admitted into the network. Rather than
admitting flows by order of arrival (First Come First Admitted)
network nodes may consider priorities to preempt some previously
admitted low priority flows in order to make room for a newer, high-
priority flow.
Herzog Standards Track