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[Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net>]

In message <199510251755.KAA19690@hubbub.cisco.com>, Yakov Rekhter writes:
> Curtis,
> 
> > I also don't see that we need a new term for describe a prefix which
> > covers a subset of the NBMA or covers the NBMA completely.  (Or
> > whatever APR was supposed to mean).
> 
> As you may remember, this document used the term LIS. However, at the
> IP-ATM WG meeting, when I presented this document it was quite clear
> consensus that a new term is needed, as the semantics (and constraints)
> of APR are different from an IP subnet (or LIS).
> 
> Yakov.


I recall the IP-ATM WG meeting (I assume you mean Danvers) that we
needed a better term than NBMA, not the address prefixes that exist
within an NBMA.

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