@techreport{shore-ntlp-00, number = {draft-shore-ntlp-00}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-shore-ntlp/00/}, author = {Melinda Shore}, title = {{The NSIS Transport Layer Protocol (NTLP) }}, pagetotal = 23, year = 2003, month = jun, day = 24, abstract = {The RSVP {[}RFC2205{]} model for communicating requests to network devices along a datapath has proven useful for a variety of appli- cations beyond what the protocol designers envisioned, and while the architectural model generalizes well the protocol itself has a number of features that limit its applicability to applications other than IntServ {[}RFC1633{]}. The NSIS working group is developing a modernized version that, among other things, is based on a 'two- layer' architecture that divides protocol function into transport and application. This document describes the transport protocol.}, }