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[Mark Laubach <laubach@terra.com21.com>]

Ipatm'ers:

Many weeks ago, I posted this reworded version of the ipatm wg charter
and asked for comments. I received none back.  Here is the same
posting again for comment.  My goal is to have this submitted and
updated prior to the Dallas meeting.  At the Dallas meeting, we'll
spend sufficient time to rework the work plan and milestones to
include the IPv6 work and to match a better degree of reality.

Cheers,
Mark

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IP Over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ipatm)
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 Charter 
 
 Current status: active working group
 
 Chair(s):
     Mark Laubach <laubach@com21.com>
 
 Internet Area Director(s): 
     Frank Kastenholz  <kasten@ftp.com>
     Susan Thomson  <set@thumper.bellcore.com>
 
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Description of Working Group:
 
The IP Over Asynchronous Transfer Mode Working Group will focus on the
issues involved in internetworking the IPv4 and IPv6 protocols over
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks.  The goal for the working
group is to produce standards for the TCP/IP Internet protocol suite.

The working group will develop models of IP over ATM internetworking
architectures; e.g. the classical Logical IP Subnet (LIS) over ATM.
The working group will develop protocols for encapsulation,
multicasting, addressing, address resolution, neighbor discovery, use
of published ATM Forum UNI signaling for IP call set up and connection
negotiation, and network management, as appropriate, to allow the
operation of internetwork protocols over an ATM network.  The working
group will submit these protocols for standardization.

The working group will coordinate its activities with the following
working groups: 

1) Routing over Large Cloud (rolc), for next hop address resolution
   extensions to the classic LIS model,
2) Integrate Services Working Group (intserv) for coordinating the
   support of the enhanced Internet service model within an ATM LIS,
3) IP Next Generation Working Group (ipngwg) for IPv6 over ATM
   coordination, and
4) Resource Reservation Setup Protocol (rsvp) for coordinating the
   support IP signaling within an ATM LIS.

The working group will coordinate its work with other relevant
standards bodies (e.g., ATM Forum, ANSI T1S1) and make recommendations
to these organizations regarding the requirements for IP
internetworking where the current published ATM standards, practices,
or functionality do not meet the needs of internetworking.

The working group will not develop physical layer standards for ATM.

Goals and Milestones: 
 
   Jun 95 Post first Internet-Draft detailing Multicast Systems Overview
          for IP multicast over ATM

   Jun 95 Post first Internet-Draft update for combined RFC1577/1626
          (Classical IP and ARP over ATM update, with 
          Default IP MTU for use over ATM AAL5)

   Jul 95 Submit proposal to move RFC1483 from proposed to draft status

   Jul 95 Post update to Framework I-D

   Aug 95 Submit proposal to move IPMC I-D to proposed status
          (draft-ietf-ipatm-ipmc-04.txt or later version)

   Aug 95 Submit proposal to move combined RFC1577/1626 to proposed status

   Sep 95 Submit proposal for Framework I-D to informational status

   Dec 95 Post an Internet-Draft update for RFC1755 for UNI 4.0
          (ATM Signaling Support for IP over ATM)