This document contains a tutorial on the recent work in the area of offering services in the Internet. We cover the principles and some of the details of Integrated Services and Differentiated Services. We also explain the relationship to RSVP of each of these architectures. Finally, we draw some conclusions about the relationship of these architectures to SURFnet.

‘You can’t expect Joe Six-Pack to be Bob Brook.’ That was an off-the-cuff remark thrown into a heated debate about publicly reported high-quality data at one of the ‘Pennyhill Park’ health policy annual events hosted by the Commonwealth Fund and the Nuffield Trust. Robert H Brook, former director of RAND Health, has been a colossus in the field of healthcare quality measurement for over 30 year...

This paper provides an overview of an implementation of Differentiated Services interior and boundary nodes as described in the SIMA model. The operation of the network nodes was verified with a series of measurements in a simple networking environment. These measurements also give some idea about the level of Quality of Service this kind of mechanism is able to provide.

This memo defines a set of general control and characterization parameters for network elements supporting the IETF integrated services QoS control framework. General parameters are those with common, shared definitions across all QoS control services.

liveliness of any library is directly related to the rate of using its information services and resources. studying the amount of the existing information resources used by faculty members, who account for a considerable portion of the library users, can be a positive step for promoting the quality of library services and resources. in this descriptive survey, 72 percent of research community (...