QBone Signaling Design Team
The QBone Signaling Design Team has concluded. The final
report of the design team contains the state of the SIBBS protocol
at the time the design team concluded.
The remainder of this page is historical.
Charter
The current group is an evolution of the Bandwidth Broker Advisory
Council that was begun in 1999 and which developed the
requirements for an inter-domain bandwidth broker protocol and
the initial draft of the SIBBS (Simple Inter-domain Bandwidth
Broker Signaling). The current group has been working since
last year (2000) to fill in the details of the SIBBS protocol
and to make sure it is implementable.
This group is chartered to describe the SIBBS protocol in sufficient
detail so that an interoperable implementation can be made. At
the completion of the work the group will recommend the protocol
for inclusion in the QBone Architecture and for deployment in
the QBone. The operability/interoperability event in September
will be a "proof of concept" for this protocol.
The group consists of a varying number of people who meet by phone
conference every few weeks to discuss technical issues with the
protocol. Among the people who have contributed are:
- Andy Adamson
- CITI University of Michigan
- Giovanni Bennini
- Siemens
- Phil Chimento
- Ericsson IPI
- Larry Dunn
- Cisco
- Reinhard Frank
- Siemens
- Rüdiger Geib
- Deutsche Telekom
- Hermann Granzer
- Siemens
- Sue Hares
- NextHop
- Haci Mantar
- Syracuse University
- Will Murray
- Cisco
- Ibrahim Okumus
- Syracuse University
- Alain Roy
- Argonne National Labs
- Volker Sander
- Forschungszentrum Jülich
- Ben Teitelbaum
- Internet 2
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Documents Contributed by Participants
- Design document evolved over the life of the work group.
- Document from Rüdiger Geib proposing SPO parameters for Qbone
Premium Service, received 10-05-00.
- Revised state machine
based on the comments of Larry Dunn (updated 24-05-00). Phil Chimento
- A COPS presentation from Giovanni Benini
received 16-05-99.
- A document from Phil Chimento proposing
somewhat different SPO
parameters than Rüdiger's document. Placed 18-05-00.
- Operational BB stability
by Rüdiger Geib. Placed 24-5-00.
- TLV Encoding
by Rüdiger Geib. Placed 15-6-00.
- BB Traffic Engineering by Haci Mantar
Placed 15-6-00.
- TLV Encoding (new version)
by Rüdiger Geib. Placed 16-6-00.
- Document on SIBBS security by Volker
Sander, placed 26-6-00.
- RAR Encodings by Rüdiger Geib,
placed 28-06-00
- Discussion of Token Bucket parameters
by Haci Mantar, placed 29-06-00.
- Discussion of Keep Alive Messages by Ibrahim Okumus Placed 14-09-00.
- Discussion of Keep Alive Messages by Ibrahim Okumus placed 10-02-00.
- Discussion of refresh messages by Ibrahim Okumus placed 10-02-00.
- Draft of initialization state machine by Phil Chimento, placed 10-03-00.
- New draft of the encodings by Rüdiger Geib. Placed 10-13-00
- New draft of refresh design by Haci Mantar. Placed 10-27-00.
- Explanation of scalable timers by Ibrahim Okumus. Placed 10-27-00.
- New draft of Keepalive state machine by Phil Chimento. Placed 11-22-00.
- New draft of the refresh document by Haci Mantar. Placed 12-20-00.
- New draft of the Keep Alive state machine by Phil Chimento. Placed 01-02-01.
- Last (!) draft of the Keep Alive state machine by Phil Chimento. Placed 01-11-01.
- New Draft of initialization state machine by Phil Chimento, placed 01-11-01.
- New Proposal on aggregationBen Teitelbaum.
- New Draft of the encodings by Rüdiger Geib. Placed 03-16-01
- New BB Security Model by Volker Sander, Andy Adamson, Alain Roy, Ian Foster. Placed 03-26-01.
- Comments on Ben Teitelbaum's document by Haci Mantar (Syracuse University) [.doc][.pdf]
- Start of a document detailing setup scenarios by Phil Chimento, placed 04-26-01.
Notes from the Telephone Conferences
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