BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
          ID:: STAN//CS-TR-89-1273
       ENTRY:: January 05, 1995
ORGANIZATION:: Stanford University, Department of Computer Science
       TITLE:: Sirpent[TM]: a high-performance internetworking approach
        TYPE:: Technical Report
      AUTHOR:: Cheriton, David R.
        DATE:: July 1989
       PAGES:: 14
    ABSTRACT:: A clear target for computer communication technology is to
               support a high-performance global internetwork. Current
               internetworking approaches use either concatenated virtual
               circuits, as in X.75, or a "universal" internetwork datagram,
               as in the DoD Internet IP protocol and the IS0 connectionless
               network protocol (CLNP). Both approaches have significant
               disadvantages.

               This paper describes Sirpent[TM] (Source Internetwork Routing
               Protocol with Extended Network Transfer), a new approach to
               an internetwork architecture that makes source routing the
               basis for interconnection, rather than an option as in IP.
               Its benefits include simple switching with low per-packet
               processing and delay, support for accounting and congestion
               control, and scalability to a global internetwork. It also
               supports flexible, user-controlled routing such as required
               for security, policy-based routing and real-time
               applications. We also propose a specific internetwork
               protocol, called VIPER[TM], as a realization of the Sirpent
               approach.
       NOTES:: [Adminitrivia V1/RAM/19950105]
         END:: STAN//CS-TR-89-1273