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

> > > 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.
> 
> That is incorrect. You are insisting that one approach to solving a
> problem is the requirement.  The requirement is that both elastic
> traffic and real time traffic are well accommodated and handled
> efficiently.  "QoS of ATM" may be one approach, but better solutions
> might exist.

If your purpose is so, use LANE.

If you can accept packet relaying for multicast case, where QoS-garanteed
multimedia application is needed most, there is no reason you can't
use packet relaying for the unicast case. So, don't try to have LIS for
end-to-end cell-by-cell relaying.

Rest of us will pursue more ambitious goal of the promised seamless
LAN-WAN connection.

> Can we just agree that we have differing views as to which approaches
> to solving the problem will be the most effective and end this thread?

I don't think we share the same idea on "the problem".

							Masataka Ohta