Transport protocols and bulk file transfer

[stanislav shalunov <>]

Here's the first cut at the charter for the group.  Comments are most
welcome.


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                               Mission

To create a tool for bulk transport that is suitable for
high-performance networks.

                             Description

The Transport working group will address the need of the community for
a bulk transport tool that is easy to use on today's advanced
networks, is portable across a wide range of platforms, has high
performance, can tolerate minor non-congestive packet loss, applicable
to both static file transfer and interactive applications, and is
TCP-friendly.

The working group will serve as a forum for discussion of the
transport protocols topic within the Internet2 community.

                              Milestones

2005-04  Design space survey for a bulk transport tool
2005-10  Application Programmer Interface description
2005-10  Bulk transport protocol specification
2005-12  Preliminary experience report

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Stanislav Shalunov              http://www.internet2.edu/~shalunov/

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