Protocol Action: The PPP Bandwidth Allocation Protocol (BAP) The PPP Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol (BACP) to Proposed Standard

The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> Tue, 25 February 1997 23:12 UTC

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Subject: Protocol Action: The PPP Bandwidth Allocation Protocol (BAP) The PPP Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol (BACP) to Proposed Standard
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 18:08:31 -0500
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  The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft "The PPP Bandwidth
  Allocation Protocol (BAP) The PPP Bandwidth Allocation Control
  Protocol (BACP)" <draft-ietf-pppext-bacp-06.txt> as a Proposed
  Standard. This document is the product of the Point-to-Point Protocol
  Extensions Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Frank
  Kastenholz and Jeffrey Burgan.


Technical Summary

   This document defines a protocol used to dynamically allocate
   bandwidth on PPP links which are using the PPP Multilink Protocol.
   The protocol includes mechanisms for adding links to and deleting
   links from the multilink bundle.

Working Group Summary

   This protocol was developed in the PPPEXT working group. Development
   was without rancor.

Protocol Quality

   The protocol has been reviewed by Frank Kastenholz and Jeff Burgan.

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