IPng:  Requirements

Presented by Jon Crowcroft/University College London

Biography:  Jon Crowcroft is a senior lecturer in the Department of
Computer Science, University College London, where he is responsible for
a number of European and US funded research projects in multi-media
communications.  A recent project just completed worked on protocol
migration (Internet and OSI). He graduated with a degree in Physics from
Trinity College, Cambridge University in 1979, and gained his MS in
Computing in 1981, and PhD in 1993.  He is a member of the ACM, the
British Computer Society and the IEEE. He will be general chair for the
ACM SIGCOMM 94 symposium.  He is also on the editorial teams for the
Journal of High Speed Networks and IEEE Network.

Current projects which reflect his interests include:  an ARPA funded
project building multimedia over multi-service networks, a RACE prepare
project piloting ATM for conferencing systems, and an ESA project
investigating load balancing for space craft control systems.


This presentation does not report on the decision process, but on the
requirements process for the Next Generation Internet Protocol, and in
particular, detailing the contents of the criteria as captured by Craig
Partridge and Frank Kastenholz in their Internet-Draft.