\contentsline {section}{\numberline {1}Introduction and Motivation}{1} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {1.1}Understanding the Problems}{2} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {1.2}Finding the Solutions}{2} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {1.3}What's in a Name?}{3} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {2}Background}{4} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.1}The DDN Protocol Suite}{4} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.2}The OSI Protocol Suite}{5} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.3}Comparison of Services}{6} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.4}A Digression on the Interoperability of Applications}{6} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {3}The Approach}{9} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.1}Summary of the Protocol}{10} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.2}Design Decisions}{13} \contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {3.2.1}Packet Format}{13} \contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {3.2.2}Quality of Service}{13} \contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {3.2.3}Administration of Address Space}{13} \contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {3.2.4}Expedited Data}{14} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.3}Work To Date}{15} \contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {3.3.1}RFC983}{15} \contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {3.3.2}Prototype Implementation}{16} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.4}Comparison to Other Approaches}{16} \contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {3.4.1}Our Analysis of this Work}{17} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {4}Migration Strategies}{19} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.1}Phase One: Development Environment for OSI Applications}{19} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.2}Phase Two: Experiment with Migration Engines}{20} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.3}Phase Three: Deploy Migration Engines}{21} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.4}Work To Date}{21} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {5}Conclusions}{22} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {A}Distribution Mechanics}{24} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {B}Changes to RFC983}{25}