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"A Nice Way to Get Network Quality of Service?"

Thursday, June 13, 2002 Andy Oram from O'Reilly has written a flattering article on QBone Scavenger Service.

Campus Bandwidth Management BOF

Friday, May 10, 2002 Managing campus network resources, particularly congested access circuits, is an increasing challenge for many campus network operators. Some campuses have turned to special purpose middleboxes that are often deployed at the campus edge. Related to firewalls, these "QoS appliances" support a range of functionality, including: application classification, DSCP marking, shaping, differentiated queuing, and TCP window size spoofing. Other campuses have turned to usage-based accounting, charge-back, quotas, or other policy mechanisms. These various mechanisms are often combined in creative ways to meet particular technical and policy objectives. This meeting was held at the Spring 2002 Internet2 Member Meeting--Arlington, VA and was a partial reprise and follow-on to the QoS Appliances: Disease or Cure? session held at the NLANR/Internet2 Techs Workshop - Tempe, AZ. Slides from all six presentations are available here.

QoS Appliances: Disease or Cure

January 22nd, 2002 To manage congested access circuits, some Internet2 members have turned to special purpose middleboxes that are often deployed at the campus edge. Related to firewalls, these "QoS appliances" support a range of functionality, including: application classification, DSCP marking, shaping, differentiated queuing, and TCP window size spoofing. To date, the QoS working group has not addressed the implications or capabilities of these devices. To begin to do so, participants in the working group have organized a plenary session for the NLANR/Internet2 Techs Workshop to be held Monday, January 28, 2002. This session will include a survey and taxonomy of QoS appliance capabilities, several experience talks from campus network operators, "pro" and "con" outrageous opinion talks, and a brief panel discussion. An open follow-up meeting of the Internet2 QoS working group will be held at 8pm at the Holiday Inn the following evening to discuss next-steps. Addendum (February 8th, 2002): Final slides in PDF and raw notes from the WG follow-up meeting are available.

Internet2 QoS Fellowship Awarded

December 14th, 2001 The Internet2 Fellowship on Application QoS Needs has been awarded to Dimitros Miras--a PhD student from University College London, UK. Members of the QoS Application Needs design team are providing Dimitrios with professional support and advice as he embarks on this ambitious project. Watch the fellowship home page for developments.

Internet2 Fellowship on Application QoS Needs

June 29th, 2001 We announce Internet2 Fellowship which has been established to study and document applications QoS needs. Specifically, the recipient of this fellowship will be requested to produce a survey paper and create a framework for the ongoing analysis and documentation of the relationship between the needs of advanced Internet2 applications and new network services being deployed by Internet2. This is a Fall/short-term fellowship, and only one grant is available. Applicants can be masters or doctoral students or faculty members in computer science or a related field. The applicant must be available for six months in order to complete the expected document. The fellowship will pay $10,000. To apply for this fellowship, applicants should send email to: fellowship@internet2.edu Full text of the announcement can be found at: http://www.internet2.edu/qos/wg/apps/Documents/fellowship.html

QBone Scavenger Service Definition Published as Internet2 Technical Report

April 12th, 2001 Consensus having been recognized, the "QBone Scavenger Service Definition" has been published as an "Internet2 Technical Report, Proposed Service Definition". Thanks to the Scavenger Service Design Team for all their hard work!

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