Internet2 QBone Initiative
Build interdomain testbed infrastructure
- Experiment and improve understanding of DiffServ
- Incrementally improve testbed
Support intradomain & interdomain deployment
Lead and follow IETF standards work
- Some parts of DiffServ architecture cooked; others far from it
- Our experience will inform standards process
Openness of R&E community gives us an edge
- Users will tolerate the flakiness of an experimental infrastructure
- Engineers will share experience and measurement data
- QBone as “infrastructure that only a graduate student could love”