Connection IP (cip) ------------------- Charter Last Modified: 27-Jul-97 Current Status: Concluded Working Group Chair(s): Claudio Topolcic Internet Area Director(s): Jeffrey Burgan Thomas Narten Internet Area Advisor: Thomas Narten Mailing Lists: General Discussion:cip@bbn.com To Subscribe: cip-request@bbn.com Archive: Description of Working Group: 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. Goals and Milestones: Done Define common hardware and software platform. Done Produce a new specification of ST. Done Implement hardware and software platform. May 91 Implement experimental modules and perform experiments. May 92 Produce a specification of a next generation connection oriented protocol. Internet-Drafts: No Current Internet-Drafts. Request For Comments: None to date.