Concluded WG Connection IP (cip)
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Final Charter for 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.
Milestones
| Date | Milestone | Associated documents |
| 1992-05-31May 1992 | Produce a specification of a next generation connection oriented protocol. | |
| 1991-05-31May 1991 | Implement experimental modules and perform experiments. | |
Done milestones
| Date | Milestone | Associated documents |
| Done | Implement hardware and software platform. | |
| Done | Produce a new specification of ST. | |
| Done | Define common hardware and software platform. | |