Network Working Group                                       G. Cristallo
      Internet Draft                                                   Alcatel
      Document: draft-jacquenet-qos-nlri-05.txt                   C. Jacquenet
      Category: Experimental                                    France Telecom
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         Providing Quality of Service Indication by the BGP-4 Protocol: the
                                 QOS_NLRI attribute
                         <draft-jacquenet-qos-nlri-05.txt>
      
      
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      Abstract
      
         This draft specifies an additional BGP4 (Border Gateway Protocol,
         version 4) attribute, named the "QOS_NLRI" attribute, which aims at
         propagating QoS (Quality of Service)-related information associated
         to the NLRI (Network Layer Reachability Information) information
         conveyed in a BGP UPDATE message.
      
      Table of Contents
      
         1.      Conventions Used in this Document..........................2
         2.      Introduction...............................................2
         3.      Changes since the Previous Version.........................3
         4.      Basic Requirements.........................................3
         5.      The QOS_NLRI Attribute (Type Code tbd*)....................4
         6.      Operation..................................................7
      
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         7.      Use of Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4...............8
         8.      Simulation Results.........................................9
         8.1.    A Phased Approach..........................................9
         8.2.    A Case Study..............................................10
         8.3.    Additional Results........................................11
         8.4.    Next Steps................................................12
         9.      IANA Considerations.......................................13
         10.     Security Considerations...................................13
         11.     References................................................13
         12.     Acknowledgments...........................................14
         13.     Authors' Addresses........................................14
         14.     Full Copyright Statement..................................14
      
      
      1. Conventions Used in this Document
      
         The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
         "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED",  "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
         document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [2].
      
      2. Introduction
      
         Providing end-to-end quality of service is one of the most important
         challenges of the Internet, not only because of the massive
         development of value-added IP service offerings, but also because of
         the various QoS policies that are currently enforced within an
         autonomous system, and which may well differ from one AS (Autonomous
         System) to another.
      
         For the last decade, value-added IP service offerings have been
         deployed over the Internet, thus yielding a dramatic development of
         the specification effort, as far as quality of service in IP networks
         is concerned. Nevertheless, providing end-to-end quality of service
         across administrative domains still remains an issue, mainly because:
      
         - QoS policies may dramatically differ from one service provider to
           another,
      
         - The enforcement of a specific QoS policy may also differ from one
           domain to another, although the definition of a set of common
           quality of service indicators may be shared between the service
           providers.
      
         Activate the BGP4 protocol ([3]) for exchanging reachability
         information between autonomous systems has been a must for many
         years. Therefore, disseminating QoS information coupled with
         reachability information in a given BGP UPDATE message appears to be
         helpful in enforcing an end-to-end QoS policy.
      
         This draft aims at specifying a new BGP4 attribute, the QOS_NLRI
         attribute, which will convey QoS-related information associated to
      
      
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         the routes described in the corresponding NLRI field of the
         attribute.
      
         This document is organized according to the following sections:
      
         - Section 3 identifies the changes that have been made in the
           document since the previous version,
      
         - Section 4 describes the basic requirements that motivate the
           approach,
      
         - Section 5 describes the attribute,
      
         - Section 6 elaborates on the mode of operation,
      
         - Section 7 elaborates on the use of the capabilities advertisement
           feature of the BGP4 protocol,
      
         - Section 8 depicts the results of an ongoing simulation work,
      
         - Finally, sections 9 and 10 introduce IANA and some security
           considerations, respectively.
      
      3. Changes since the Previous Version
      
         The current version of this draft reflects the following changes:
      
         - The format of the attribute has been modified, to include the
           multiple path advertisement capability, as described in [4], and
           section 5 has been updated accordingly,
      
         - Section 6 has been introduced to better depict the mode of
           operation that now takes into account the multiple path
           advertisement capability, as described in [4]. From this
           perspective, this draft can be viewed as an application of this
           extension,
      
         - A table of contents has been added,
      
         - The References section has been updated,
      
         - Correction of remaining typos.
      
      4. Basic Requirements
      
         The choice of using the BGP4 protocol for exchanging QoS information
         between domains is not only motivated by the fact BGP is currently
         the only inter-domain (routing) protocol activated in the Internet,
         but also because the manipulation of attributes is a powerful means
         for service providers to disseminate QoS information with the desired
         level of precision.
      
      
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         The approach presented in this draft has identified the following
         requirements:
      
         - Keep the approach scalable. The scalability of the approach can be
           defined in many ways that include the convergence time taken by the
           BGP peers to reach a consistent view of the network connectivity,
           the number of route entries that will have to be maintained by a
           BGP peer, the dynamics of the route announcement mechanism (e.g.,
           how frequently and under which conditions should an UPDATE message
           containing QoS information be sent?), etc.
      
         - Keep the BGP4 protocol operation unchanged. The introduction of a
           new attribute should not affect the way the protocol operates, but
           the information contained in this attribute may very well influence
           the BGP route selection process.
      
         - Allow for a smooth migration. The use of a specific BGP attribute
           to convey QoS information should not constrain network operators to
           migrate the whole installed base at once, but rather help them in
           gradually deploying the QoS information processing capability.
      
      5. The QOS_NLRI Attribute (Type Code tbd*)
      
         (*): "tbd" is subject to the IANA considerations section of this
         draft.
      
         The QOS_NLRI attribute is an optional transitive attribute that can
         be used for the following purposes:
      
         1. To advertise a QoS route to a peer. A QoS route is a route that
           meets one or a set of QoS requirement(s) to reach a given (set of)
           destination prefixes. Such QoS requirements can be expressed in
           terms of minimum one-way delay ([5]) to reach a destination, the
           experienced delay variation for IP datagrams that are destined to
           a given destination prefix ([6]), the loss rate experienced along
           the path to reach a destination, and/or the identification of the
           traffic that is expected to use this specific route
           (identification means for such traffic include DSCP (DiffServ Code
           Point, [7]) marking). These QoS requirements can be used as an
           input for the BGP route calculation process,
      
         2. To provide QoS-related information along with the NLRI information
           in a single BGP UPDATE message. It is assumed that this
           information will be related to the route (or set of routes)
           described in the NLRI field of the attribute.
      
         From a service provider's perspective, the choice of defining the
         QOS_NLRI attribute as an optional transitive attribute is motivated
         by the fact that this kind of attribute allows for gradual deployment
         of the dissemination of QoS-related information by BGP4: not all the
         BGP peers are supposed to be updated accordingly, while partial
         deployment of such QoS extensions can already provide an added value,
      
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         e.g. in the case where a service provider manages multiple domains,
         and/or has deployed a BGP confederation ([8]).
      
         This draft makes no specific assumption about the means to actually
         value this attribute, since this is mostly a matter of
         implementation, but the reader is suggested to have a look on
         document [9], as an example of a means to feed the BGP peer with the
         appropriate information. The QOS_NLRI attribute is encoded as
         follows:
      
               +---------------------------------------------------------+
               | QoS Information Code (1 octet)                          |
               +---------------------------------------------------------+
               | QoS Information Sub-code (1 octet)                      |
               +---------------------------------------------------------+
               | QoS Information Value (2 octets)                        |
               +---------------------------------------------------------+
               | QoS Information Origin (1 octet)                        |
               +---------------------------------------------------------+
               | Address Family Identifier (2 octets)                    |
               +---------------------------------------------------------+
               | Subsequent Address Family Identifier (1 octet)          |
               +---------------------------------------------------------+
               | Network Address of Next Hop (4 octets)                  |
               +---------------------------------------------------------+
               | Flags (1 octet)                                         |
               +---------------------------------------------------------+
               | Identifier (2 octets)                                   |
               +---------------------------------------------------------+
               | Length (1 octet)                                        |
               +---------------------------------------------------------+
               | Prefix (variable)                                       |
               +---------------------------------------------------------+
      
         The use and meaning of the fields of the QOS_NLRI attribute are
         defined as follows:
      
         -  QoS Information Code:
      
             This field carries the type of the QOS information. The following
             types have been identified so far:
      
         (0) Reserved
         (1) Packet rate, i.e. the number of IP datagrams that can be
             transmitted (or have been lost) per unit of time, this number
             being characterized by the elaboration provided in the QoS
             Information Sub-code (see below)
         (2) One-way delay metric
         (3) Inter-packet delay variation
         (4) PHB Identifier
      
      
      
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         -  QoS Information Sub-Code:
      
             This field carries the sub-type of the QoS information. The
             following sub-types have been identified so far:
      
         (0) None (i.e. no sub-type, or sub-type unavailable, or unknown sub-
             type)
         (1) Reserved rate
         (2) Available rate
         (3) Loss rate
         (4) Minimum one-way delay
         (5) Maximum one-way delay
         (6) Average one-way delay
      
         The instantiation of this sub-code field MUST be compatible with the
         value conveyed in the QoS Information code field, as stated in the
         following table (the rows represent the QoS Information Code possible
         values, the columns represent the QoS Information Sub-code values
         identified so far, while the "X" sign indicates incompatibility).
      
                  +---------------------------------------+
                  |    |  0 |  1 |  2 |  3 |  4 |  5 |  6 |
                  +---------------------------------------+
                  |  0 |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
                  +---------------------------------------+
                  |  1 |    |    |    |    |  X |  X |  X |
                  +---------------------------------------+
                  |  2 |    |  X |  X |  X |    |    |    |
                  +---------------------------------------+
                  |  3 |    |  X |  X |  X |  X |  X |  X |
                  +---------------------------------------+
                  |  4 |    |  X |  X |  X |  X |  X |  X |
                  +---------------------------------------+
      
         -  QoS Information Value:
      
             This field indicates the value of the QoS information. The
             corresponding units obviously depend on the instantiation of the
             QoS Information Code. Namely, if:
      
         (a) QoS Information Code field is "0", no unit specified,
         (b) QoS Information Code field is "1", unit is kilobits per second
             (kbps), and the rate encoding rule is composed of a 3-bit
             exponent (with an assumed base of 8) followed by a 13-bit
             mantissa, as depicted in the figure below:
                                   0      8       16
                                   |       |       |
                                   -----------------
                                   |Exp| Mantissa  |
                                   -----------------
      
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             This encoding scheme advertises a numeric value that is (2^16 -1
             - exponential encoding of the considered rate), as depicted in
             [10].
         (c) QoS Information Code field is "2", unit is milliseconds,
         (d) QoS Information Code field is "3", unit is milliseconds,
         (e) QoS Information Code field is "4", no unit specified.
      
         -  QoS Information Origin:
      
             This field provides indication on the origin of the path
             information, as defined in section 4.3.of [3].
      
         -  Address Family Identifier (AFI):
      
             This field carries the identity of the Network Layer protocol
             associated with the Network Address that follows. Currently
             defined values for this field are specified in [11] (see the
             Address Family Numbers section of this reference document).
      
         -  Subsequent Address Family Identifier (SAFI):
      
             This field provides additional information about the type of the
             prefix carried in the QOS_NLRI attribute.
      
         -  Network Address of Next Hop:
      
             This field contains the IPv4 Network Address of the next router
             on the path to the destination prefix, (reasonably) assuming that
             such routers can at least be addressed according to the IPv4
             formalism.
      
         -  Flags, Identifier, Length and Prefix fields:
      
             These four fields actually compose the NLRI field of the QOS_NLRI
             attribute, and their respective meanings are as defined in
             section 2.2.2 of [4].
      
      6. Operation
      
         When advertising a QOS_NLRI attribute to an external peer, a router
         may use one of its own interface addresses in the next hop component
         of the attribute, given the external peer to which one or several
         route(s) is (are) being advertised shares a common subnet with the
         next hop address.  This is known as a "first party" next hop
         information.
      
         A BGP speaker can advertise to an external peer an interface of any
         internal peer router in the next hop component, provided the external
         peer to which the route is being advertised shares a common subnet
         with the next hop address.  This is known as a "third party" next hop
         information.
      
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         A BGP speaker that sends an UPDATE message with the QOS_NLRI
         attribute has the ability to advertise multiple QoS routes, since the
         Identifier field of the attribute is part of the NLRI description. In
         particular, the same prefix can be advertised more than once without
         subsequent advertisements that would replace previous announcements.
      
         Since the resolution of the NEXT_HOP address that is always conveyed
         in a BGP UPDATE message is left to the responsibility of the IGP that
         has been activated within the domain, the best path according to the
         BGP route selection process depicted in [3] SHOULD also be
         advertised. As long as the routers on the path towards the address
         depicted in the NEXT_HOP attribute of the message have the additional
         paths depicted in the QOS_NLRI attribute, the propagation of QoS
         routes within a domain where all the routers are QOS_NLRI aware
         should not yield inconsistent routing.
      
         A BGP UPDATE message that carries the QOS_NLRI MUST also carry the
         ORIGIN and the AS_PATH attributes (both in eBGP and in iBGP
         exchanges). Moreover, in iBGP exchanges such a message MUST also
         carry the LOCAL_PREF attribute. If such a message is received from an
         external peer, the local system shall check whether the leftmost AS
         in the AS_PATH attribute is equal to the autonomous system number of
         the peer than sent the message. If that is not the case, the local
         system shall send the NOTIFICATION message with Error Code UPDATE
         Message Error, and the Error Sub-code set to Malformed AS_PATH.
      
         Finally, an UPDATE message that carries no NLRI, other than the one
         encoded in the QOS_NLRI attribute, should not carry the NEXT_HOP
         attribute. If such a message contains the NEXT_HOP attribute, the BGP
         speaker that receives the message should ignore this attribute.
      
      7. Use of Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4
      
         A BGP speaker that uses the QOS_NLRI attribute SHOULD use the
         Capabilities Advertisement procedures, as defined in [12], so that it
         might be able to determine if it can use such an attribute with a
         particular peer.
      
         The fields in the Capabilities Optional Parameter are defined as
         follows:
      
         -  The Capability Code field is set to N (127 < N < 256, when
             considering the "Private Use" range, as specified in [13]), while
             the Capability Length field is set to "1".
      
         -  The Capability Value field is a one-octet field, which contains
             the Type Code of the QOS_NLRI attribute, as defined in the
             introduction of section 5 of the present draft.
      
         In addition, the multiple path advertisement capability MUST be
         supported, as defined in section 2.1 of [4].
      
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      8. Simulation Results
      
      8.1. A Phased Approach
      
         The simulation work basically aims at qualifying the scalability of
         the usage of the QOS_NLRI attribute for propagating QoS-related
         information across domains.
      
         This effort also focused on the impact on the stability of the BGP
         routes, by defining a set of basic engineering rules for the
         introduction of additional QoS information, as well as design
         considerations for the computation and the selection of "QoS routes".
      
         This ongoing development effort is organized into a step-by-step
         approach, which consists in the following phases:
      
           1. Model an IP network composed of several autonomous systems.
              Since this simulation effort is primarily focused on the
              qualification of the scalability related to the use of the
              QOS_NLRI attribute for exchanging QoS-related information
              between domains, it has been decided that the internal
              architecture of such domains should be kept very simple, i.e.
              without any specific IGP interaction,
      
           2. Within this IP network, there are BGP peers that are QOS_NLRI
              aware, i.e. they have the ability to process the information
              conveyed in the attribute, while the other routers are not: the
              latter do not recognize the QOS_NLRI attribute by definition,
              and they will forward the information to other peers, by setting
              the Partial bit in the attribute, meaning that the information
              conveyed in the message is incomplete. This approach contributes
              to the qualification of a progressive deployment of QOS_NLRI-
              aware BGP peers,
      
           3. As far as QOS_NLRI aware BGP peers are concerned, they will
              process the information contained in the QOS_NLRI attribute to
              possibly influence the route decision process, thus yielding the
              selection (and the announcement) of distinct routes towards a
              same destination prefix, depending on the QoS-related
              information conveyed in the QOS_NLRI attribute,
      
           4. Modify the BGP route decision process: at this stage of the
              simulation, the modified decision process relies upon the one-
              way delay information (which corresponds to the QoS Information
              Code field of the attribute valued at "2"), and it also takes
              into account the value of the Partial bit of the attribute.
      
         Once the creation of these components of the IP network has been
         completed (together with the modification of the BGP route selection
         process), the behavior of a QOS_NLRI-capable BGP peer is as follows.
      
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         Upon receipt of a BGP UPDATE message that contains the QOS_NLRI
         attribute, the router will first check if the corresponding route is
         already stored in its local RIB, according to the value of the one-
         way delay information contained in both QoS Information Code and Sub-
         code fields of the attribute.
      
         If not, the BGP peer will install the route in its local RIB.
         Otherwise (i.e. an equivalent route already exists in its database),
         the BGP peer will select the best of both routes according to the
         following criteria:
      
         - If both routes are said to be either incomplete (Partial bit has
            been set) or complete (Partial bit is unset), the route with the
            lowest delay will be selected,
      
         - Otherwise, a route with the Partial bit unset is always preferred
            over any other route, even if this route reflects a higher transit
            delay.
      
         If ever both Partial bit and transit delay information are not
         sufficient to make a decision, the standard BGP decision process
         (according to the breaking ties mechanism depicted in [3]) is
         performed.
      
      8.2. A Case Study
      
         As stated in the previous section 8.1, the current status of the
         simulation work basically relies upon the one-way transit delay
         information only, as well as the complete/incomplete indication of
         the Partial bit conveyed in the QOS_NLRI attribute.
      
         The following figures depict the actual processing of the QoS-related
         information conveyed in the QOS_NLRI attribute, depending on whether
         the peer is QOS_NRLI-aware or not.
      
                                [Fig. 1: A Case Study.]
      
         Figure 1 depicts the IP network that has been modelled, while figure
         2 depicts the propagation of a BGP UPDATE message that contains the
         QOS_NLRI attribute, in the case where the contents of the attribute
         are changed, because of complete/incomplete conditions depicted by
         the Partial bit of the QOS_NLRI attribute.
      
             [Fig. 2: Propagation of One-way Delay Information via BGP4.]
      
         Router S in figure 2 is a QOS_NRLI-capable speaker. It takes 20
         milliseconds for node S to reach network 192.0.20.0: this information
         will be conveyed in a QOS_NLRI attribute that will be sent by node S
         in a BGP UPDATE message with the Partial bit of the QOS_NLRI
         attribute unset.
      
      
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         Router A is another QOS_NLRI BGP peer, and it takes 3 milliseconds
         for A to reach router S. Node A will update the QoS-related
         information of a QOS_NLRI attribute, indicating that, to reach
         network 192.0.20.0, it takes 23 milliseconds. Router A will install
         this new route in its database, and will propagate the corresponding
         UPDATE message to its peers.
      
         On the other hand, router B is not capable of processing the
         information conveyed in the QOS_NLRI attribute, and it will therefore
         set the Partial bit of the QOS_NLRI attribute in the corresponding
         UPDATE message, leaving the one-way delay information detailed in
         both QoS Information Code and Sub-code unchanged.
      
         Upon receipt of the UPDATE message sent by router A, router E will
         update the one-way delay information since it is a QOS_NRLI-capable
         peer. Finally, router D receives the UPDATE message, and selects a
         route  with  a  40  milliseconds  one-way  delay  to  reach  network
         192.0.20.0, as depicted in figure 3.
      
                    [Fig. 3: Selecting QoS Routes Across Domains.]
      
         This simulation result shows that the selection of a delay-inferred
         route over a BGP route may not yield an optimal decision. In the
         above example, the 40 ms-route goes through routers D-E-A-S, while a
         "truly optimal" BGP route would be through routers D-E-F-A-S, hence a
         38 ms-route. This is because of a BGP4 rule that does not allow
         router F to send an UPDATE message towards router E, because router F
         received the UPDATE message from router A thanks to the iBGP
         connection it has established with A.
      
      8.3. Additional Results
      
         The following table reflects the results obtained from a simulation
         network composed of 9 autonomous systems and 20 BGP peers. The
         numbers contained in the columns reflect the percentage of serviced
         requirements, where the requirements are expressed in terms of delay.
      
         Three parameters have been taken into account:
      
         - The percentage of BGP peers that have the ability to process the
           information conveyed in the QOS_NLRI attribute (denoted as "x% Q-
           BGP" in the following table),
      
         - The transit delays "observed" (and artificially simulated) on each
           transmission link: the higher the delays, the lower the percentage
           of serviced QoS requirements,
      
         - The QoS requirements themselves, expressed in terms of delay: as
           such, the strongest requirements (i.e. the lowest delays) have less
           chance to be satisfied.
      
      
      
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                  +-------------------------------------------+
                  | Delay | 0% Q-BGP | 50% Q-BGP | 100% Q-BGP |
                  +-------------------------------------------+
                  |  3    |    11    |    8,3    |    11      |
                  +-------------------------------------------+
                  |  5    |    30,5  |    30,5   |    36,1    |
                  +-------------------------------------------+
                  |  6    |    40    |    47,2   |    55,5    |
                  +-------------------------------------------+
                  |  7    |    47    |    59,7   |    72,2    |
                  +-------------------------------------------+
                  |  8    |    62,5  |    79     |    91,6    |
                  +-------------------------------------------+
                  |  9    |    63    |    84,7   |    97,2    |
                  +-------------------------------------------+
                  |  10   |    70,8  |    90,2   |    98,6    |
                  +-------------------------------------------+
                  |  11   |    76,3  |    93     |    98,6    |
                  +-------------------------------------------+
                  |  12   |    86,1  |    97,2   |    100     |
                  +-------------------------------------------+
                  |  13   |    88,8  |    98,6   |    100     |
                  +-------------------------------------------+
                  |  14   |    94,4  |    100    |    100     |
                  +-------------------------------------------+
                  |  15   |    94,4  |    100    |    100     |
                  +-------------------------------------------+
                  |  16   |    94,4  |    100    |    100     |
                  +-------------------------------------------+
                  |  17   |    97,2  |    100    |    100     |
                  +-------------------------------------------+
                  |  18   |    98,6  |    100    |    100     |
                  +-------------------------------------------+
                  |  19   |    98,6  |    100    |    100     |
                  +-------------------------------------------+
                  |  20   |    98,6  |    100    |    100     |
                  +-------------------------------------------+
                  |  21   |    98,6  |    100    |    100     |
                  +-------------------------------------------+
                  |  22   |    100   |    100    |    100     |
                  +-------------------------------------------+
      
         This table clearly demonstrates the technical feasibility of the
         approach, and how the use of the QOS_NLRI attribute can improve the
         percentage of serviced QoS requirements.
      
      8.4. Next Steps
      
         The above-mentioned simulation effort is currently pursued in order
         to better qualify the interest of using the BGP4 protocol to convey
         QoS-related information between domains, from a scalability
      
      
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         perspective, i.e. the growth of BGP traffic vs. the stability of the
         network.
      
         The stability of the IP network is probably one of the most important
         aspects, since QoS-related information is subject to very dynamic
         changes, thus yielding non-negligible risks of flapping.
      
      9. IANA Considerations
      
         Section 5 of this draft documents an optional transitive BGP-4
         attribute named "QOS_NLRI" whose type value will be assigned by IANA.
         Section 6 of this draft also documents a Capability Code whose value
         should be assigned by IANA as well.
      
      10. Security Considerations
      
         This additional BGP-4 attribute specification does not change the
         underlying security issues inherent in the existing BGP-4 protocol
         specification [14].
      
      11. References
      
         [1]  Bradner, S., "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3",
               BCP 9, RFC 2026, October 1996.
         [2]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
               Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
         [3]  Rekhter Y., Li T., "A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)", RFC
               1771, March 1995.
         [4]  Walton, D., et al., "Advertisement of Multiple Paths in BGP",
               draft-walton-bgp-add-paths-01.txt, Work in Progress, November
               2002.
         [5]  Almes, G., Kalidindi, S., "A One-Way-Delay Metric for IPPM",
               RFC 2679, September 1999.
         [6]  Demichelis, C., Chimento, P., "IP Packet Delay Variation Metric
               for IP Performance Metrics (IPPM)", RFC 3393, November 2002.
         [7]  Nichols, K., Blake, S., Baker, F., Black, D., "Definition of
               the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and
               IPv6 Headers", RFC 2474, December 1998.
         [8]  Traina, P., McPherson, D., Scudder, J., " Autonomous System
               Confederations for BGP", RFC 3065, February 2001.
         [9]  Jacquenet, C., "A COPS client-type for IP traffic engineering",
               draft-jacquenet-ip-te-cops-04.txt, Work in Progress, January
               2003.
         [10] Apostolopoulos, G. et al, "QoS Routing Mechanisms and OSPF
               Extensions", RFC 2676, August 1999.
         [11] Reynolds, J., Postel, J., "ASSIGNED NUMBERS", RFC 1700, October
               1994.
         [12] Chandra, R., Scudder, J., "Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-
               4", RFC 3392, November 2002.
      
      
      
      
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         [13] Narten, T., Alvestrand, H., "Guidelines for Writing an IANA
               Considerations Section in RFCs", RFC 2434, October 1998.
         [14] Heffernan, A., "Protection of BGP sessions via the TCP MD5
               Signature Option", RFC 2385, August 1998.
      
      12. Acknowledgments
      
         Part of this work is funded by the European Commission, within the
         context of the MESCAL (Management of End-to-End Quality of Service
         Across the Internet At Large, http://www.mescal.org) project, which
         is itself part of the IST (Information Society Technologies) research
         program.
      
         The author would also like to thank all the partners of the MESCAL
         project for the fruitful discussions that have been conducted within
         the context of the traffic engineering specification effort of the
         project, as well as O. Bonaventure and B. Carpenter for their
         valuable input.
      
      13. Authors' Addresses
      
         Geoffrey Cristallo
         Alcatel
         Francis Wellesplein, 1
         2018 Antwerp
         Belgium
         Phone: +32 (0)3 240 7890
         E-Mail: geoffrey.cristallo@alcatel.be
      
         Christian Jacquenet
         France Telecom
         3, avenue Fran‡ois Ch‚teau
         CS 36901
         35069 Rennes Cedex
         France
         Phone: +33 2 99 87 63 31
         Email: christian.jacquenet@francetelecom.com
      
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