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IP over ATM Working Group's Recommendations for the ATM Forum's Multiprotocol BOF Version 1
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RFC 1754 IPATM WG ATM Forum Recommendations V1 January 1995
standards for the TCP/IP protocol suite and recommendations which
could be used by other internetworking protocol standards (e.g., ISO
CLNP and IEEE 802.2 Bridging).
The Working Group will initially develop experimental protocols for
encapsulation, multicasting, addressing, address resolution, call set
up, and network management to allow the operation of internetwork
protocols over an ATM network. The Working Group may later submit
these protocols for IETF standardization.
The Working Group will not develop physical layer standards for ATM.
These are well covered in other standards groups and do not need to
be addressed in this Group.
The Working Group will develop models of ATM internetworking
architectures. This will be used to guide the development of
specific IP over ATM protocols.
The Working Group will also develop and maintain a list of technical
unknowns that relate to internetworking over ATM. These will be used
to direct future work of the Working Group or be submitted to other
standards or research groups as appropriate.
The Working Group will coordinate its work with other relevant
standards bodies (e.g., ANSI T1S1.5) to insure that it does not
duplicate their work and that its work meshes well with other
activities in this area. The Working Group will select among ATM
protocol options (e.g., selection of an adaptation layer) and make
recommendations to the ATM standards bodies regarding the
requirements for internetworking over ATM where the current ATM
standards do not meet the needs of internetworking."
Historically, a large number of IETF IPATM WG participants are
employees of companies who are principal members of the ATM Forum.
Requirements between the two organizations have been communicated
informally by these participants. With the establishment of the ATM
Forum's Multiprotocol BOF activities, it has become prudent now to
document IETF requirements in a more formal fashion.
At the July 1994 meeting of the IETF in Toronto, Canada, a request
was presented to the IP over ATM Working Group by the ATM Forum
Liaison, Drew Perkins, for the working group to prepare a list of
requirements as input to the ATM Forum's Multiprotocol BOF
activities. This document is a response to that request.
Laubach