This document contains a tutorial on the recent work in the area of offering services in the Internet. We cover the principles and some of the details of Integrated Services and Differentiated Services. We also explain the relationship to RSVP of each of these architectures. Finally, we draw some conclusions about the relationship of these architectures to SURFnet.

‘You can’t expect Joe Six-Pack to be Bob Brook.’ That was an off-the-cuff remark thrown into a heated debate about publicly reported high-quality data at one of the ‘Pennyhill Park’ health policy annual events hosted by the Commonwealth Fund and the Nuffield Trust. Robert H Brook, former director of RAND Health, has been a colossus in the field of healthcare quality measurement for over 30 year...

& The Learning Grid refers to the promise of projects that pool together instructional materials on distant computers. The Grid provides a wide range of available and potential learning services and resources and does not simply refer to taking advantage of the multiplying effects of connectivity. It supports the personalized use of the collective intelligence provided by networked computers an...

This paper provides an overview of an implementation of Differentiated Services interior and boundary nodes as described in the SIMA model. The operation of the network nodes was verified with a series of measurements in a simple networking environment. These measurements also give some idea about the level of Quality of Service this kind of mechanism is able to provide.

This paper presents a multi-modal featurebased system for extracting salient keywords from transcripts of instructional videos. Specifically, we propose to extract domain-specific keywords for videos by integrating various cues from linguistic and statistical knowledge, as well as derived sound classes and characteristic visual content types. The acquisition of such salient keywords will facili...

This memo defines a set of general control and characterization parameters for network elements supporting the IETF integrated services QoS control framework. General parameters are those with common, shared definitions across all QoS control services.