Connection IP (cip)

Charter

Chair(s):
     Claudio Topolcic, topolcic@nri.reston.va.us

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Description of Working Group:

     This Working Group is looking at issues involved in
     connection-oriented (or stream- or flow-oriented) internet
     level protocols.  The long-term intent is to identify the
     issues involved, to understand them, to identify algorithms
     that address them, and to produce a specification for a
     protocol that incorporates what the Working Group has learned.
     To achieve this goal, the group is defining a two year
     collaborative research effort based on a common hardware and
     software base.  This will include implementing different
     algorithms that address the issues involved and performing
     experiments to compare them.  On a shorter time-line, ST is a
     stream-oriented protocol that is currently in use in the
     Internet.  A short-term goal of this Working Group is to define
     a new specification for ST, called ST-2, inviting participation
     by any interested people.  MCHIP and the Flow Protocol have
     also been discussed because they include relevant ideas.

Goals and Milestones:

Done       Produce a new specification of ST.

Done       Define common hardware and software platform.

Done       Implement hardware and software platform.

May 1991   Implement experimental modules and perform experiments.

May 1992   Produce a specification of a next generation connection
           oriented protocol.



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