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        RFC 2216
        
        Title:      Network Element Service Specification Template
	Author:     S. Shenker, J. Wroclawski
        Status:     Informational
	Date:       September 1997
        Mailbox:    shenker@parc.xerox.com, jtw@lcs.mit.edu
        Pages:      22
        Characters: 53655
        Updates/Obsoletes:  None
        
        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2216.txt


This document defines a framework for specifying services provided
by network elements, and available to applications, in an
internetwork which offers multiple qualities of service. The
document first provides some necessary context -- including
relevant definitions and suggested data formats -- and then
specifies a "template" which service specification documents
should follow. The specification template includes per-element
requirements such as the service's packet handling behavior,
parameters required and made available by the service, traffic
specification and policing requirements, and traffic ordering
relationships.  It also includes evaluation criteria for elements
providing the service, and examples of how the service might be
implemented (by network elements) and used (by applications).

This document is a product of the Integrated Services
Working Group of the IETF.

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Joyce K. Reynolds and Alegre Ramos
USC/Information Sciences Institute