Joon,
please include me in any further discussions.
thanks
Tony Crossman PictureTel
At 10:40 AM 3/3/99 -0600, Joon Maeng wrote:
Greetings! My name is Joon Maeng. I work for VTEL Corp in USA. I've
talked to
several companies while I was attending ITU and IETF meetings about
establishing
an ad-hoc group to address QoS (Quality of Service) issues in TRANSPORTING REAL-TIME TRAFFICS in the packet switched network, especially in the IP
network.
I was very encouraged by responses from those companies. Most of them agreed that lack of QoS support for real-time traffics was one of major barriers in deploying H.323/VoIP products and the H.323 industry would benefit by
having a
QoS activity group. I would like to ask if your company would be
interested in
the activities described in the following:
Proposed name of the group: H.323/VoIP QoS Activity Group.
Motivation: ITU defined a good conference standard, H.323, for the packet network. IETF is actively defining QoS standards for the IP network. The deployment of H.323/VoIP products has been slow partially due to lack of QoS supports in current IP network. The H.323/VoIP industry shall work
together to
access the issues and provide solutions for the users.
Proposed charter of the group:
- Assess QoS issues in transporting real-time traffics (calls with
long-duration
compared to web-access) in the IP network,
- Find the solutions to resolve issues,
- Execute solutions via various processes such as building consensus on
various
QoS solutions among participants, submitting recommendations to standardization bodies if needed, and facilitating inter-operablity testing between QoS standards and application standards,
- and education, promotion, etc.
I would expect the final charter and the structure of the group will be determined by the participants and their interests. I would say that everything is open at this time except that the industry shall look at the
QoS
issues seriously for real-time traffics. I'd like to clarify that the
proposed
group is not a group to standardize the QoS. It is a group or a forum
that is
interested in helping and promoting the real-time QoS for H.323/VoIP industry through various methods (to be determined). I plan to set up an email reflector for the initial discussions among participants and decide the following steps based on the discussions. Please email me (joon_maeng@
vtel.com)
if you and your company would be interested in joining the initial talks via email reflector. Your comments and suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Regards, Joon
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