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A Framework for Integrated Services and RSVP over ATM
Alternative Format: Original Text Document
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