#FIG 3.1 Landscape Center Inches 1200 2 2 4 0 6 -1 7 0 0 -1 0.000 0 0 7 0 0 5 12300 9450 12300 150 225 150 225 9450 12300 9450 4 0 -1 0 0 16 20 0.0000 4 255 4110 7950 9225 BRIMS:Promise of the Internet\001 4 0 -1 0 0 16 20 0.0000 4 315 1830 525 9300 May 29, 1997\001 4 0 -1 0 0 16 24 0.0000 4 360 7650 1875 1425 Joint Receiver, Channel and Source Coding for\001 4 0 -1 0 0 16 24 0.0000 4 285 5280 1875 1860 Re-Routeable Multimedia Flows\001 4 0 -1 0 0 16 24 0.0000 4 360 4995 1800 825 The Digital Analog of Analog -\001 4 0 -1 0 0 16 18 0.0000 4 270 7710 1950 3225 Integrated Services in the Internet have tried to mimic B-ISDN\001 4 0 -1 0 0 16 18 0.0000 4 30 75 9675 3225 .\001 4 0 -1 0 0 16 18 0.0000 4 270 7560 1950 3900 This is a mistake of the greatest order - the strength of IP lies\001 4 0 -1 0 0 16 18 0.0000 4 270 7170 1950 4230 in soft state, dynamic routing, self-organisation and so on.\001 4 0 -1 0 0 16 18 0.0000 4 270 9045 1950 4890 The design of flow types for IntServ shoudl recognize this. To retain the \001 4 0 -1 0 0 16 18 0.0000 4 270 9075 1950 5220 advantages of IP, we should abandon the hard bounds devised by Parekh\001 4 0 -1 0 0 16 18 0.0000 4 270 9300 1950 5550 and re-design multimedia applications (and partially redisgn the routing and \001 4 0 -1 0 0 16 18 0.0000 4 270 9510 1950 5880 forwarding model of an IP router (or switch)), to provide statistical properties.\001 4 0 -1 0 0 16 18 0.0000 4 270 9420 1950 6540 In this talk, I look at one (extreme) way that we might start to consider such a\001 4 0 -1 0 0 16 18 0.0000 4 270 5700 1950 6870 re-design. This idea was triggered by reading \001 4 0 -1 0 0 16 18 0.0000 4 210 3795 7725 6900 some of David Tennenhouse's \001 4 0 -1 0 0 16 18 0.0000 4 270 2910 1950 7200 work on SpectrumWare\001 4 0 -1 0 0 16 18 0.0000 4 270 6540 4950 7200 (http://www.tns.lcs.mit.edu/SpectrumWare/home.html\001 4 0 -1 0 0 16 18 0.0000 4 270 9420 1950 7875 The basic idea (as per the title) is to re-visit the analog world for ideas when \001 4 0 -1 0 0 16 18 0.0000 4 270 8070 1950 8205 designing both the sender and receiver coders, and the channel -\001