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[hiroshi@ctr.columbia.edu (Hiroshi Esaki)]

Dear everybody, 

Knock, knock, " TRICK or TREAT ? "

We, Hiroshi Esaki and Masataka Ohta, would like to announce the 
creation of a new mailing-list focusing on study of extracting 
the capability of ATM without changing of the IP architecture. 
When you are interested in to join our discussion group, please 
subscribe to the mailing-list. 
The below is the brief announcement of this new mailing-list. 

Cheers, 

Hiroshi & Masataka 


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0. Name of the Mailing-list 
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     General Discussion: colip-atm@necom830.titech.ac.jp 

     To subscribe: colip-atm-request@necom830.titech.ac.jp

1. Purpose and Goal 
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   The goal of this mailing-list is to discuss the architecture of
IP over ATM to keep the existing IP architecture as is and, at the
same time, extract the full capabilities of ATM, that is, to have
low-latent, high-bandwidth, QoS-assured communication.
The study includes the implementation of ATM routers, which perform
cell level relaying at the internetwork layer, which fits the
existing layering model of the Internet.
   IP over ATM WG is proposing LIS (Logical IP Subnet) model for 
cell-wise communication within a LIS and ROLC WG is working on 
cell-wise communication among LISs.  However, their proposal imply
several changes to the IP architecture and it can not provide normal 
ARP nor autoconfiguration capability. Therefore, the architectural 
consideration providing autoconfiguration is also one of important
aspects studied in this mailing-list.  
   The current Internet is a collection of well-manageably-small
link segments, which are connected by routers through connectionless
internet layer protocol: IP.  Within a link layer segment, hosts 
and routers may be connected either by connectionless or connection
oriented link layer protocols.  To fully extract the low-latent  
high-throughput and the QoS service oriented properties of ATM, 
the model takes care of not only the connectionless IP communication 
but also softstate reservation based QoS-assured IP communication 
related to RSVP or IPv6 flow mechanisms. 

2. Suggested Documents 
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  + Internet-Draft : "Conventional IP over ATM" 
                      by M.Ohta,H.Esaki,K.Nagami
                      draft-ohta-ip-over-atm-01.txt    
  + Internet-Draft : "Connection Oriented and Connectionless 
                      IP Forwarding Over ATM Networks" 
                      by H.Esaki,K.Nagami, M.Ohta  
                      draft-esaki-co-cl-ip-forw-atm-00.txt

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