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Guidelines for OSI NSAP Allocation in the Internet
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Network Working Group R. Colella
Request for Comments: 1629 NIST
Obsoletes: 1237 R. Callon
Category: Standards Track Wellfleet
E. Gardner
Mitre
Y. Rekhter
T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM Corp.
May 1994
Guidelines for OSI NSAP Allocation in the Internet
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Abstract
CLNP is currently being deployed in the Internet. This is useful to
support OSI and DECnet(tm) traffic. In addition, CLNP has been
proposed as a possible IPng candidate, to provide a long-term
solution to IP address exhaustion. Required as part of the CLNP
infrastructure are guidelines for network service access point (NSAP)
address assignment. This paper provides guidelines for allocating
NSAP addresses in the Internet.
The guidelines provided in this paper have been the basis for initial
deployment of CLNP in the Internet, and have proven very valuable
both as an aid to scaling of CLNP routing, and for address
administration.
Colella, Callon, Gardner & Rekhter