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The purpose of IP over ATM

  • From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>
  • Date: Wed, 17 May 95 14:33:43 JST
  • CC: hiroshi@ctr.columbia.edu, ip-atm@matmos.hpl.hp.com

> > If you insists that packet-wise relaying is enough, you should let
> > the IPATM WG die, instead.
> 
> Why.

Because LANE has accomplished exactly what you need in a way
a lot more suitable than the classical model.

> We expect to be buying ATM service and equipment and want IP
> over ATM to work (very well if possible).

Very well means "with QoS of ATM" and it is possible.

Otherwise, you can't say seamless LAN-WAN connection, anymore.

> I don't see "being
> connected oriented" as an explicit goal and see no reason to abandon
> IP over ATM for that reason.

The goal, of course, is "connectionless at the Internetwork layer,
but being able to be reservation oriented at the link and the transport
layer".

							Masataka Ohta