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[Jon Crowcroft <J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk>]

 >I'm not asking if IPs important to us; I'm asking if IP is important (enough)

good question

most market analysts now admit, though, that VOD is not likely to be i
 great demand

(and anyhow if it is, the DAVI people have a far more cost effect set
of technologies for delivrring it to existing POTS/Cable subscribers,
which is a set of users that still outstrips Internet sbscribers by at
least 1 order of magnitude)
 

but my point on encapsulatint#g ATM in new NNI headers (suggestion for
supporting IP multicast model scalably), is that if ATM can't do it,
it is a good example of why IP is so succesful - the whoele Mbone
switched from using loose source routing to IP in IP in the space pf a
few weeks, and the whole Mbone is bigger than nay dfeployed ATM net
(couting end sytems....easily...)

if atm must change, it must change to become more flexible...or, as a
manager of network change, and noting that this is the most complex
and expensive element of management in any network, i would reject 
it as to inflexible....

 jon