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A Framework for Integrated Services Over Shared and Switched IEEE 802 LAN Technologies



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Network Working Group                                         A. Ghanwani
Request for Comments: 2816                                Nortel Networks
Category: Informational                                           W. Pace
                                                                      IBM
                                                            V. Srinivasan
                                                    CoSine Communications
                                                                 A. Smith
                                                         Extreme Networks
                                                                M. Seaman
                                                                  Telseon
                                                                 May 2000


                  A Framework for Integrated Services
           Over Shared and Switched IEEE 802 LAN Technologies

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 (2000).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   This memo describes a framework for supporting IETF Integrated
   Services on shared and switched LAN infrastructure.  It includes
   background material on the capabilities of IEEE 802 like networks
   with regard to parameters that affect Integrated Services such as
   access latency, delay variation and queuing support in LAN switches.
   It discusses aspects of IETF's Integrated Services model that cannot
   easily be accommodated in different LAN environments.  It outlines a
   functional model for supporting the Resource Reservation Protocol
   (RSVP) in such LAN environments.  Details of extensions to RSVP for
   use over LANs are described in an accompanying memo [14].  Mappings
   of the various Integrated Services onto IEEE 802 LANs are described
   in another memo [13].











Ghanwani, et al.             Informational