This lecture takes a closer look at the concept of transport services and the transport services architecture (TAPS) that is currently under standardization within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
Course lecture: Transport services
Related materials
The first article is an old article that introduces the concept of a service-oriented API to the transport system. It illustrates that the concept of transport services is not a new idea and have been around in the research literature for a long time. However, it is not until now, with the standardization of the transport services architecture (TAPS) that such solutions may soon come into general use on the internet. The second document is the internet draft describing the transport services architecture that is currently under standardization.
- “Service-Oriented Protocol Interfaces and Dynamic Intermediation of Communication Services”, D. Henrici and B. Reuther, Proceedings of Communications, Internet, and Information Technology, November 2003, Scottsdale, US. [pdf available here]
- “An Architecture for Transport Services”, T. Pauly, B. Trammell, A. Brunstrom, G. Fairhurst, C. Perkins, P. Tiesel, and C. Wood, IETF Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-taps-arch, November 2023. [available here]
Additional readings
- All the documents produced by the IETF Transport Services (TAPS) working group can be found at the TAPS wg homepage.
- “Towards a Protocol-Independent Internet Transport API”, M. Welzl, S. Jörer, and S. Gjessing, FutureNet IV workshop in conjunction with of IEEE ICC 2011, 5-9 June 2011, Kyoto, Japan. [pdf available here]