MESCAL aims
to propose and validate scalable, incremental solutions that
enable the flexible deployment and delivery of inter-domain
Quality of Service (QoS) across the Internet.
This involves
developing: templates, protocols and algorithms for establishing
Service Level Specifications (SLS) between Internet Service
Providers (ISP) and their customers, including their peers;
scalable solutions for inter-domain Traffic Engineering (TE)
based on enhancements to the existing Border Gateway Protocol
(BGP) routing protocol and associated route selection logic.
MESCAL will
consider both unicast- and multicast-based services and ensure
that the proposed solutions are applicable to both IPv4 and
IPv6.