Editing Cable modem (section)

===IEEE 802.14===
In the mid-1990s the [[IEEE 802]] committee formed a subcommittee (802.14)<ref name="IEEE 802.14 WG Homepage">{{cite web|url=http://walkingdog.com/ |title=WalkingDog.com |access-date=2012-05-13 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961226193928/http://walkingdog.com/ |archive-date=1996-12-26 }} The IEEE 802.14 Working Group used WalkingDog.com as its web site.</ref> to develop a standard for cable modem systems. IEEE 802.14 developed a draft standard, which was [[Asynchronous Transfer Mode|ATM-based]]. However, the [[IEEE 802.14|802.14]] working group was disbanded when North American [[multiple system operator|multi system operators]] ([[multiple system operator|MSOs]]) instead backed the then-fledgling [[DOCSIS|DOCSIS 1.0]] specification, which generally used [[best-effort service]] and was [[Internet Protocol|IP-based]] (with extension [[Code point|codepoints]] to support [[Asynchronous Transfer Mode|ATM]]<ref name="DOCSIS RFI 1.0-I01">[http://www.cablelabs.com/specifications/SP-RFI-I01-970326.pdf DOCSIS RFI 1.0-I01 (March 26, 1997)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525094347/http://www.cablelabs.com/specifications/SP-RFI-I01-970326.pdf |date=May 25, 2011 }} (See section 6.2.3 for the DOCSIS [[Asynchronous Transfer Mode|ATM]] codepoint. See sections 6.1.2.3, 6.2.5.3, 6.4.7, 9, and 9.2.2 for DOCSIS 1.0 QoS mechanisms.)</ref> for [[Quality of service|QoS]] in the future). [[multiple system operator|MSOs]] were interested in quickly deploying service to compete for [[Internet access|broadband Internet access]] customers instead of waiting on the slower, iterative, and deliberative processes of standards development committees. Albert A. Azzam was Secretary of the IEEE 802.14 Working Group,<ref name="IEEE 802.14 WG Officers">{{cite web|url=http://www.walkingdog.com/catv/officers.htm |title=IEEE 802.14 WG Officers |access-date=2012-05-13 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970129161548/http://www.walkingdog.com/catv/officers.htm |archive-date=1997-01-29 }}</ref> and his book, ''High-Speed Cable Modems'',<ref name="Azzam - High Speed Cable Modems">{{cite book |last1=Azzam |first1=Albert A. |title=High speed cable modems : including IEEE 802.14 standards |date=1997 |publisher=New York : McGraw-Hill |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-0-07-006417-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/highspeedcablemo0000azza |access-date=7 April 2024}}</ref> describes many of the proposals submitted to 802.14.