Connection IP (cip)




Charter



Status: Concluded September, 1992 







Chair(s):







 Claudio Topolcic 







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.

Request for Comments:

  • RFC1190 Experimental Internet Stream Protocol, Version 2 (ST-II) (Experimental)