Re: [tequila/sls] predefined services / SLS ?

From: Marcus Brunner (brunner@ccrle.nec.de)
Date: Wed Oct 18 2000 - 12:02:42 CEST

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    Stefano Salsano wrote:
    >
    > Marcus Brunner wrote:
    > >
    > > Carlos Alberto Kamienski wrote:
    > > >
    > > > I my opinion there should be a field in the SLS for specifying exactly the
    > > > service one has in mind. It may be a well-known service identifier or a
    > > > identifier that has just a peer-to-peer meaning. I cannot see a
    > > > negociation process where both sides are able to understand clearly other
    > > > side's idea of the service just by observing some fields in the SLS (for
    > > > any service one can ever imagine!).
    > >
    > > You are right, this makes it much easier for negotiation. On the other
    > > hand, have you well-known services in mind? The only "service" the
    > > DiffServ WG (they call it PDB) is currently looking at is the Virtual
    > > Leased Line (VLL). It uses the EF PDB in the network.
    > >
    > > But never the less, the well-known service needs to be specified with a
    > > SLS. So in my opinion the well-known service identifer is just a
    > > compression of the SLS for ease of negotiation.
    > >
    > > Marcus
    >
    > Dear Marcus, dear all,
    >
    > in a running project (AQUILA, see
    > http://www-st.inf.tu-dresden.de/aquila/)
    > we are defining (and implementing!) SLSs in a way which is very similar
    > to the approach defined in draft-tequila-diffserv-sls-00.txt.
    >
    > What is interesting is that we found the need to have pre-defined
    > SLSs (we called it "Network Services" but the name can be misleading):
    > for ease of negotiation and implementation only a subset
    > of parameters can be specified, while the others are given by default
    > with reference to a small set of "well known services".
    > This is in perfect agreement with your idea that a well-known service
    > identifer is just a compression of the SLS for ease of negotiation.

    You mean you have, pre-defined services, where only a small number of
    parameters are negotiated. However, in order to announce, offer the
    well-known services you have to parameterize them, before the parameter
    will get a fixed/service specific value.

    >
    > We plan to send a contribution to this discussion with a draft
    > document in a short time (one or two weeks) to present our approach.

    I am glad to hear that. I await your draft.

    Marcus

    >
    > Best regards,
    > Stefano
    >
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