Department of Defense Gateway Architecture and Functional Requirements

摘要

This document presents the functional requirements for DoD Internetwork gateways. The requirements themselves are highlighted in Sections 3 and 5 through 7. In addition, Section 1 discusses the motivations for these requirements in terms of Gateway's role the DoD Internetwork; Section 2 discusses successful gateway designs. Section 4 illuminates several gateway design tradeoff areas, where design options can be used to match specific operational and performance requirements. Keywords: Computer networks; and Defense data network.