The Routing Over Large Clouds Mailing List Archive by date

[salo@msc.edu (Tim Salo)]

> Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 16:23:07 -0400
> To: "Eric W. Gray" <gray@ctron.com>
> From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
> Subject: Re: New ION group - history for the archives? 
> Cc: Albert Manfredi <manfredi@engr05.comsys.rockwell.com>, ion@nexen.com
> 	[...]
> ... since the last I checked, the Internet is IP only. Thank goodness.

A number of NSF contracts and cooperative agreements specify that
CLNP as well as IP must be routed over the infrastructure in question.

See, for example, the NSFNET solicitation, NSF 93-52.  It includes
language such as:

	"NAPs must support the switching of IP (Internet Protocol) and
	CLNP (ConnectionLess Networking Protocol) packets."

and

	"RA activities must support the network service providers which
	switch IP (Internet Protocol) and CLNP (ConnectionLess
	Networking Protocol) packets."

and even

	"The specific anticipated duties of the vBNS Provider are as
	follows:

	o	Establish and maintain a 155 Mbps or higher transit
		network service which switches IP and CLNP packets..."

and finally

	"Networks attaching to NAPs must ... be able to switch both
	Ip and CLNP packets."

Welcome to the multi-protocol Internet.

On the other hand, I haven't actually seen any CNLP packets...

-tjs