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.
Milestones
Date
Milestone
Associated documents
May 1992
Produce a specification of a next generation connection oriented protocol.
May 1991
Implement experimental modules and perform experiments.