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For those of you who followed the discussion about Arequipa in the late ipatm
group: We have a presentation of Arequipa and its implementation in the linux
kernel in the second session of the ISSLL group, Tuesday around 11h10.
The latest ID about Arequipa is draft-almesberger-arequipa-01.txt.
Philippe
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Abstract
We propose a method for allowing ATM-attached hosts that have direct
ATM connectivity to set up end-to-end IP over ATM connections within
the reachable ATM cloud, on request from applications, and for the
exclusive use by the requesting applications. This allows the
requesting applications to benefit in a straightforward way from
ATM's inherent ability to guarantee the quality of service (QoS).
Given a mapping from service classes, as defined by INTSERV[6], to
ATM traffic descriptors, Arequipa can be used to implement
integrated services over ATM link layers. Usage of Arequipa to
provide integrated services even if ATM is only available for
intermediate links is not discussed in this document but should be
straight-forward.
The major advantage of using an approach like Arequipa is that it
needs to be implemented only on the hosts using it. It requires no
extra service (eg. NHRP or RSVP) to be deployed on the switches or
routers of the ATM cloud.
We discuss the implementation of Arequipa for hosts running IPv4 and
IPv6. As an illustration, we also discuss how World-Wide-Web
applications can use Arequipa to deliver documents with a guaranteed
quality of service.
In particular we show that
- Arequipa can be implemented in IPv4 by slightly modifying the
existing implementation of support for IP over ATM [1],
- Arequipa can be implemented in IPv6[3] by the appropriate
flow labels and the extension of the neighbour cache,
- Arequipa can be used in the Web by adding extra information in
the headers of HTTP requests and responses.
Finally, we address safety and security implications.
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