@techreport{ahlard-boomerang-framework-00,
    number =    {draft-ahlard-boomerang-framework-00},
    type =      {Internet-Draft},
    institution =   {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    note =      {Work in Progress},
    url =       {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ahlard-boomerang-framework/00/},
    author =    {David Ahlard and Joakim Bergkvist and Istvan Cselenyi and Tomas Engborg},
    title =     {{Boomerang - A Simple Resource Reservation Framework for IP}},
    pagetotal = 16,
    year =      1999,
    month =     mar,
    day =       2,
    abstract =  {This draft describes a framework for providing quantitative IP services with guaranteed QoS. Although the proposed reservation approach is based on a new, lightweight signaling protocol, it can be used with interoperability with other IP QoS techniques such as Diff-Serv, Int-Serv. Distinguishing features of the Boomerang protocol are: * signaling messages are generated only by the initiating node, therefore complexity and intelligence is concentrated in one point enabling simple implementation * flow state aggregation can be suggested to subsequent nodes by appending the Boomerang message, thus good scalability can be achieved * bi-directional reservation can be made independently of the path, which yields a fast and effective reservation process * the only requirement on the far-end node is that it should be able to bounce the Boomerang message back, ensuring quick penetration into the current Internet. There is a lab prototype in which the Boomerang protocol is wrapped in ICMP ECHO / ECHO-REPLY (PING) messages.},
}