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[samg@netcom.com (Sam Ghandchi)]

Folks,

This whole thing is becoming like the I-PNNI versus
MPOA discussions a few months ago at ATMF.  Is
there any way that we could see what alternative
supersets are feasible and start from there? 

- samg

> 
> jhalpern@us.newbridge.com wrote:
> 
> [ ... ]
>  
> > Further, as we have discussed, there are important architectural
> > reasons for not requiring the two systems to use the same addressing.
> > (Peer model addressing only works if the two topologies correlate.)
> 
> But wait, Joel.
> 
> Just as ATM NSAPAs can accommodate various topologies, a combined ATM/IP
> structure could have done likewise, no? Sure, this can get ridiculous if
> everyone must have his own scheme, but if things are kept under control
> what would be wrong with multiple routing algorithms within ATM switches
> and IP routers, where the algorithm used is chosen according to the AFI
> byte? For instance?
> 
> I have to confess that when I dig into the NHRP complexities, it makes me
> impatient; exasperated that it had to come to this.
> 
> Bert
> manfredi@engr05.comsys.rockwell.com
> 


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