The IP Over NBMA (ION) Archive

[Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>]

> >The answer, I think, is, it depends on the application and the
> >sender controls everything.
> >
> >So, while ATM forum may have it's own policy of bandwidth
> >management, any bandwidth control suggested by the network
> >is not useful for IP.
> 
> 
> I think that's a rather sweeping statement.

Yes.

> Is control over loss
> probability not useful to IP?

No, it is not for best effort multicast IP.

> I think pt-mpt ABR can be useful for IP, but I agree with your concern
> about the non-usefulness (or non-scalability, anyway) of any service 
> which constrains the throughput of the multicast tree according to the
> rate of the slowest branch.

My concern is that no rate control policy of ATM is useful to IP.

> I think it may be difficult to have a productive discussion of this
> subject,

Still, the sweeping destructive statement works.

						Masataka Ohta