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Workshop report: Internet research steering group workshop on very-high-speed networks
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Network Working Group C. Partridge
Request for Comments: 1152 BBN Systems and Technologies
April 1990
Workshop Report
Internet Research Steering Group Workshop on
Very-High-Speed Networks
Status of this Memo
This memo is a report on a workshop sponsored by the Internet
Research Steering Group. This memo is for information only. This
RFC does not specify an Internet standard. Distribution of this memo
is unlimited.
Introduction
The goal of the workshop was to gather together a small number of
leading researchers on high-speed networks in an environment
conducive to lively thinking. The hope is that by having such a
workshop the IRSG has helped to stimulate new or improved research in
the area of high-speed networks.
Attendance at the workshop was limited to fifty people, and attendees
had to apply to get in. Applications were reviewed by a program
committee, which accepted about half of them. A few key individuals
were invited directly by the program committee, without application.
The workshop was organized by Dave Clark and Craig Partridge.
This workshop report is derived from session writeups by each of the
session chairman, which were then reviewed by the workshop
participants.
Session 1: Protocol Implementation (David D. Clark, Chair)
This session was concerned with what changes might be required in
protocols in order to achieve very high-speed operation.
The session was introduced by David Clark (MIT LCS), who claimed that
existing protocols would be sufficient to go at a gigabit per second,
if that were the only goal. In fact, proposals for high-speed
networks usually include other requirements as well, such as going
long distances, supporting many users, supporting new services such
as reserved bandwidth, and so on. Only by examining the detailed
requirements can one understand and compare various proposals for
protocols. A variety of techniques have been proposed to permit
protocols to operate at high speeds, ranging from clever
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