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From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
Subject: Re: Routing Protocols 
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> --------
> On Mon, 10 Jun 1996 13:36:57 -0500 (CDT) tqbf@enteract.com writes:
> =>> f) RSVP
> =>
> =>What's RSVP?
> =>
> ____
> 
> RSVP stands for Resource ReServation Protocol.
> It is a protocol which seeks to provide QoS
> guarantees over the internet, mostly for 
> multicast type traffic.

...and it's a way for an end-system/host to ask the network to do
something (resource reservation) which it doesn't actually know how to
do yet.

louie