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<title abbrev='Guaranteed Quality of Service'>Specification of Guaranteed Quality of Service</title>
<author initials='S.' surname='Shenker' fullname='Scott Shenker'>
<organization>Xerox PARC</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>3333 Coyote Hill Road</street>
<street>Palo Alto</street>
<street>CA  94304-1314</street></postal>
<phone>415-812-4840</phone>
<facsimile>415-812-4471</facsimile>
<email>shenker@parc.xerox.com</email></address></author>
<author initials='C.' surname='Partridge' fullname='Craig Partridge'>
<organization>BBN</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>2370 Amherst</street>
<street>Palo Alto CA 94306</street>
<country>St</country></postal>
<email>craig@bbn.com</email></address></author>
<author initials='R.' surname='Guerin' fullname='Roch Guerin'>
<organization>IBM T.J. Watson Research Center</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>Yorktown Heights</street>
<street>NY 10598</street></postal>
<phone>914-784-7038</phone>
<facsimile>914-784-6318</facsimile>
<email>guerin@watson.ibm.com</email></address></author>
<date month='September' year='1997' />
<area>Transport</area>
<keyword>quality of service</keyword>
<abstract>
<t>
   This memo describes the network element behavior required to deliver
   a guaranteed service (guaranteed delay and bandwidth) in the
   Internet.  Guaranteed service provides firm (mathematically provable)
   bounds on end-to-end datagram queueing delays.  This service makes it
   possible to provide a service that guarantees both delay and
   bandwidth.  This specification follows the service specification
   template described in .
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