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[guru@deltanet.com (Bill Schultz)]

In <3no6fu$ofe@titan.ci.ua.pt>, coelho@ci.ua.pt (Rui P. Coelho) writes:
>Wenjing Zhu (wenjing@lds.loral.com) wrote:
>
>: There're two major organizations working on the Ip-over-ATM area
>: The first one is IETF IP over ATM group, they have so far published
>: two Internet standards: "Multiprotocol encapsulation over ATM AAL5"
>: (RFC 1483) and "Classical IP and ARP over ATM " (RFC1577). There's
>: also another draft document "IP over ATM: A Framework Document"
>: from IETF. The group has an active mailing list you can subscribe to:
>: "majordomo@matmos.hpl.hp.com.
>
>: The other major player is ATM Forum. To start with, consult www.atmforum.com.
>
>: Regards,
>: Wenjing
>
>Could you please tell where the document "IP over ATM: A Framework Document"
>can be found? (site, path, NAME)

I don't know about that document, but I believe it should be obsoleted by
RFC-1755.  Here is a brief extract thereof:

Network Working Group                                           M. Perez
Request for Comments: 1755                                           ISI
Category: Standards Track                                        F. Liaw
                                                      FORE Systems, Inc.
                                                               A. Mankin
                                                              E. Hoffman
                                                                     ISI
                                                             D. Grossman
                                                          Motorola Codex
                                                                A. Malis
                                                    Ascom Timeplex, Inc.
                                                           February 1995


                 ATM Signaling Support for IP over ATM

Status of this Memo

   This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
   Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
   improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
   Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
   and status of this protocol.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Abstract

   This memo describes the ATM call control signaling exchanges needed
   to support Classical IP over ATM implementations as described in RFC
   1577 [LAUB94]. ATM endpoints will incorporate ATM signaling services
   as specified in the ATM Forum User-Network Interface (UNI)
   Specification Version 3.1 [ATMF94]. IP over ATM implementations
   utilize the services of local ATM signaling entities to establish and
   release ATM connections. This memo should be used to define the
   support required by IP over ATM implementations from their local ATM
   signaling entities.

   This document is an implementors guide intended to foster
   interoperability among RFC 1577, RFC 1483, and UNI ATM signaling.  It
   applies to IP hosts and routers which are also ATM endsystems and
   assumes ATM networks that completely implement the ATM Forum UNI
   Specification Version 3.1. Unless explicitly stated, no distinction
   is made between the Private and Public UNI.

   UNI 3.1 is considered an erratum to the UNI 3.0 specification. It has
   been produced by the ATM Forum, largely for reasons of alignment with
   Recommendation Q.2931. Although UNI 3.1 is based on UNI 3.0 there are
   several changes that make the two versions incompatible. A
   description of how to support IP over ATM using UNI 3.0 is found in
   Appendix B.

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