Item for discussion: draft-rekhter-ip-atm-architecture-00.txt

[Andy Malis <[e-mail]>]

Yakov Rekhter and Dilip Kandlur have posted a new Internet Draft that
discusses a topic of great interest to the ROLC WG - determining when
ATM hosts should establish direct (inter-LIS) circuits as opposed to
using the router overlay on a large cloud.  While it is more a
directional piece than a protocol specification, any further work
based upon the I-D has implications for both IP/ATM and NHRP.

I've forwarded the I-D announcement below, in case you missed it.
Please retrieve and read it (retrieval instructions, including by
email, are included), and post comments to the rolc mailing list.

Thanks,
Andy
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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
directories.                                                               

       Title     : IP Architecture Extensions for ATM                      
       Author(s) : Y. Rekhter, D. Kandlur
       Filename  : draft-rekhter-ip-atm-architecture-00.txt
       Pages     : 8
       Date      : 01/25/1995

The original IP architecture assumes that each Data Link subnetwork is 
labeled with a single IP network number. As indicated in RFC1620, this 
assumption may be violated for large data networks, including ATM-based 
networks. The architecture works even when this assumption is violated, but
it imposes constraints on communication among hosts and routers through an 
ATM-based network, which in turn may preclude full utilization of ATM 
capabilities. This document describes extensions to the IP architecture 
that relaxes these constraints, thus enabling the full utilization of the 
services provided by ATM.                                                  

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