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[Q] Suggest new protocol providing QoS...

  • From: manfredi@engr05.comsys.rockwell.com (Albert E. Manfredi)
  • Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 18:48:35 -0500
  • X-VMS-Cc: ipatm
  • X-VMS-To: SMTP%"pferguso@cisco.com"

> From:	pferguso@cisco.com    29-MAR-1996 17:47

> >> IP, like it or not, is entrenched in the global environment [Internet].
> >> This is not likely to change.
> >
> >Oh, I dunno. IPv6, RSVP, QoS, IntServ, ... Seems like pretty big changes
> >to me.
> 
> Show me successful implementations in the Internet. Also, you're
> making a rather big assumption that these will be embraced by the
> remainder of people on the planet.  :-)

But what's merely one planet among many ...

Actually, the point I was trying to make is that the stuff above points to 
a clear trend: the Internet knows it has to change to do those things that 
a native ATM, in theory, would do well. Huge address space, reserved path, 
QoS guarantees, and the IntServ vernacular which is stolen from ISDN (ergo 
BISDN & ATM).

After having said that ATM is more likely to change than IP, Masataka had 
joked that some feel IP is just another protocol too. Well, IP either 
_becomes_ different, and does so successfully, or ATM all by itself will
be more of a key player in the future.

Bert
manfredi@engr05.comsys.rockwell.com