A Framework for Differentiated Services

Internet Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months. Internet Drafts may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is not appropriate to use Internet Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as a "working draft" or "work in progress". To learn the current status of any Internet-Draft, please check the 1id-abstracts.txt listing contained in the Internet-Drafts Shadow Directories on ftp. 1. Abstract This document provides a general description of issues related to the definition, configuration and management of services enabled by the differentiated services architecture [DSARCH]. This document should be read along with its companion documents, the differentiated services architecture [DSARCH] and the definition of the DS field [DSHEAD]. A glossary of specialist terms used may be found in [DSARCH].