An important requirement of Internet2 sites is a Quality of Service (QoS) guarantee from the network. After listening to many segments of the Internet2 community at workshops held over the last nine months, the Internet2 QoS working group has prepared a draft statement of requirements for Internet2 QoS. The working group is also preparing a series of recommendations for a QoS strategy in the form of several technical papers. These papers will be published in advance of the workshop for review by the general Internet2 community.

The primary goals of the workshop are:

• to present a recommended approach to QoS for Internet2
• to solicit feedback from a diverse cross-section of the Internet2 community
• to be used by the QoS working group and Internet2 engineering teams in refining their engineering plans
• to increase understanding between the advanced applications and advanced networking communities
• to converge on a calendar-year 1998 plan for initial deployment of QoS functionality in Internet2.

The workshop will be most successful if a diversity of perspectives is represented. Specifically, it is hoped that there be strong representation from: campus network planners, advanced applications developers, chief information officers (CIOs), gigaPoP planners, and members of the network research community. The program committee believes that each of these groups has a distinct and valuable perspective to offer. Developers will be concerned that the types of services being proposed could satisfy the challenging demands of their advanced networked applications; CIOs will be concerned about the costs and managability of any QoS scheme; and network engineers will be concerned about technical options, interoperability, and the details of provisioning a QoS service.