RFC 1686 (rfc1686) - Page 1 of 14

IPng Requirements: A Cable Television Industry Viewpoint

Network Working Group                                          M. Vecchi
Request for Comments: 1686                             Time Warner Cable
Category: Informational                                      August 1994


       IPng Requirements: A Cable Television Industry Viewpoint

Status of this Memo

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

Abstract

   This document was submitted to the IETF IPng area in response to RFC
   1550.  Publication of this document does not imply acceptance by the
   IPng area of any ideas expressed within.  The statements in this
   paper are intended as input to the technical discussions within IETF,
   and do not represent any endorsement or commitment on the part of the
   cable television industry or any of its companies.  Comments should
   be submitted to the  mailing list.

Table of Contents

   1. Executive Summary ..........................................   2
   2. Cable Television Industry Overview .........................   2
   3. Engineering Considerations .................................   5
   3.1  Scaling ..................................................   5
   3.2  Timescale ................................................   5
   3.3  Transition and deployment ................................   6
   3.4  Security .................................................   7
   3.5  Configuration, administration and operation ..............   7
   3.6  Mobile hosts .............................................   8
   3.7  Flows and resource reservation ...........................   8
   3.8  Policy based routing .....................................  10
   3.9  Topological flexibility ..................................  10
   3.10 Applicability ............................................  10
   3.11 Datagram service .........................................  11
   3.12 Accounting ...............................................  11
   3.13 Support of communication media ...........................  12
   3.14 Robustness and fault tolerance ...........................  12
   3.15 Technology pull ..........................................  12
   3.16 Action items .............................................  13
   4. Security Considerations ....................................  13
   5. Conclusions ................................................  13
   6. Author's Address ...........................................  14




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