BOF: "Real-time Packet Forwarding and Admission Control" [realtime]

[Steve Coya <[e-mail]>]

Schedule: Wednesday November 3, 1930 - 2200

Note: THis BOF will be multicasted on Channel 1

Chair: Bob Braden, USC Information Sciences Institute

Speakers: Scott Shenker, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
	  Dave Clark, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science

Summary:
   The demand for multimedia communication and the success of IETF
   audio/videocasts are creating an urgent requirement for resource
   reservation in the Internet, to support 'real-time' applications.
   To implement resource reservation, we must define an appropriate
   service model which all routers will satisfy.  We must come to an
   agreement on how to ensure that a heterogeneous set of routers will
   support the model, regardless of what mechanisms they use.

   This BOF will present a proposal for a new Internet service model,
   and then discuss how the IETF should go about standardizing it.  Scott
   Shenker and Dave Clark will be the speakers.  They plan to address
   the following topics:

	A:  Why we need a new service model

	B:  A Proposal for a new Integrated Service Model

	C:  How to standardize a service model

   The BOF will then have open discussion of these topics, intended to
   lead to the creation of a working group to carry this work forward
   towards standardization.

   Two Internet Drafts have been submitted as background for this
   BOF.

	"Integrated Services in the Internet Architecture: an Overview",
		Bob Braden, Dave Clark, and Scott Shenker,
			draft-braden-realtime-outline.00.ps
			draft-braden-realtime-outline.00.txt

	"A Service Model for an Integrated Services Internet",
		Scott Shenker, Dave Clark, and Lixia Zhang,
			draft-shenker-realtime-model-00.ps
			draft-shenker-realtime-model-00.txt