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RFC Submission . . . .

  • From: forster@cisco.com (Jim Forster)
  • Date: Mon, 2 Jan 1995 15:09:49 -0800
  • CC: ahnidi@mci.net, atm-nap@msc.edu, craig@aland.bbn.com, gja@thumper.bellcore.com, ip-atm@matmos.hpl.hp.com, rbradfor@lightstream.com, rfc-editor@isi.edu, stev-iesg@ftp.com, stev@ftp.com

>> From: Andy Malis <malis@maelstrom.timeplex.com>
>>       [...]
>>           The RFC should include somewhere a note explicitly stating
>> that while stations using the DXI interface can interoperate with each
>> other, they cannot interoperate with non-DXI (i.e. native ATM) RFC
>> 1577 implementations.
>
>I am not convinved that this, in and of itself, if correct.

Right, it's not correct.  We're planning on supporting 1577 over DXI, for
instance.

>A 1490 implementation cannot interoperate with a 1577 implementation.
>However, a 1577 implementation operating over DXI ought to interoperate
>with a 1577 implementation operating over a native ATM interface.

That's a better way to state the restriction.

 -- Jim