The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'Information Model for Describing
Network Device QoS Datapath Mechanisms'
<draft-ietf-policy-qos-device-info-model-10.txt> as a Proposed Standard.
This document is the product of the Policy Framework Working Group. The
IESG contact persons are Bert Wijnen and Randy Bush.
Technical Summary
The purpose of this document is to define an information model to
describe the quality of service (QoS) mechanisms inherent in
different network devices, including hosts. Broadly speaking,
these mechanisms describe the properties common to selecting and
conditioning traffic through the forwarding path (datapath) of a
network device. This selection and conditioning of traffic in
the datapath spans both major QoS architectures: Differentiated
Services and Integrated Services.
This documen should be used with the QoS Policy Information Model
(QPIM) to model how policies can be defined to manage and configure
the QoS mechanisms (i.e., the classification, marking, metering,
dropping, queuing, and scheduling functionality) of devices.
Together, these two drafts describe how to write QoS policy rules
to configure and manage the QoS mechanisms present in the datapaths
of devices.
This document, as well as QPIM, are information models. That is,
they represent information independent of a binding to a specific
type of repository.
Working Group Summary
The Working Group has consensus on this document to be published as
Proposed Standard.
Protocol Quality
This document has been reviewed for the IESG by Bert Wijnen
RFC-Editor notes:
- 2nd para of abstract
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This documenthis document
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This document
- Page 2, 7th sentence
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Together, these two drafts
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Together, these two documents
- Page 5, 1st para
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Together, these two drafts
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Together, these two documents
- Page 5, 2nd para
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A separate draft could be written
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A separate document could be written
- The word "draft occurs at several more places. It is best
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- Section 7
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Like [PCIM} and {PCiME},
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Like [PCIM] and [PCiME],
- Co-Author Walter Weiss is now at: walterweiss@attbi.com
