"The Real-time Channel Administration Protocol"
			     Bruce A. Mah
		       bmah@tenet.berkeley.edu
			   The Tenet Group
		 University of California at Berkeley
				 and
	       International Computer Science Institute

The Real-time Channel Administration Protocol (RCAP) provides control
and adminstration services for the Tenet Real-Time Protocol Suite, a
set of connection-oriented network- and transport-layer protocols for
real-time communication.  RCAP performs per-channel reservation of
network resources based on worst-case analysis to provide hard
guarantees on delay, jitter, and packet-loss bounds.  It uses a
hierarchical approach to provide these guarantees across a
heterogeneous internetwork environment.

This talk describes some of the motivations behind RCAP, its current
design, and the state of its implementation.