I-D ACTION:draft-heinanen-diffserv-af-00.txt

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	Title		: Assured Forwarding PHB Group
	Author(s)	: J. Heinanen
	Filename	: draft-heinanen-diffserv-af-00.txt
	Pages		: 3
	Date		: 03-Aug-98
	
   This document proposes a general use Differentiated Services (DS)
   [Black] Per-Hop-Behavior (PHB) Group called Assured Forwarding (AF).
   AF PHB group consists of two code points AF1 and AF2.  A DS node
   delivers packets marked as AF1 with a very small propability of loss,
   whereas packets marked as AF2 are delivered as best effort.  The DS
   node will not reorder AF packets of the same microflow no matter if
   some of the packets are marked as AF1 and some as AF2.  There is no
   timing requirements associated with the delivery of AF packets.

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