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[fred@cisco.com (Fred Baker)]

At 4:25 PM 3/29/96, Steve Jackowski wrote:
>IP is a protocol, don't turn it into a religion.  It does a job and is
>quite good for a lot of things and will continue to be for quite a
>while.  Still, it's not the best at everything. If it were,
>corporations that need guaranteed performance and security wouldn't
>use SNA.

You might check what SNA's growth rate is...

IP's not a religion with me. I point it out as a fact of life. I think
you'll find that IP4 and IP6 have a security architecture, which ATM lacks
(you might not like it, but it at least exists). And we have every reason
to believe that QoS guarantees will be there for IP in the reasonably near
future. At least my phone keeps ringing off the hook with calls from people
who want to deploy it in the backbone.

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