@techreport{viswanathan-mpls-rsvp-00, number = {draft-viswanathan-mpls-rsvp-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-viswanathan-mpls-rsvp/00/}, author = {Arun Viswanathan and Steven L. Blake and Dr. Vijay Srinivasan}, title = {{Soft State Switching A Proposal to Extend RSVP for Switching RSVP Flows}}, pagetotal = 13, year = 1997, month = aug, day = 25, abstract = {This memo describes a mechanism for establishing a switched path with guaranteed Quality of Service for RSVP {[}1{]} flows in a MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS) environment. It proposes an extension to the RSVP protocol that allows the establishment of a sequence of label switched hops along the hop-by-hop routed path by enabling adjacent nodes to exchange MPLS labels {[}11{]}. The labels may correspond to information that identifies a layer 2 virtual connection; for example, the VPI/VCI value in the case of an ATM-based infrastructure.}, }