Editor's Note: Minutes received 8/12
CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
Reported by Bob Hinden/Sun
Minutes of the IP over Asynchronous Transfer Mode Working Group (ATM)
Agenda
o Review Agenda.
o Discussion of ``Multiprotocol Interconnect over ATM'' Internet
Draft.
o Status of other ATM Groups.
o MAC Layer Proposal by John Burnett.
o Presentation on ``Network Layer Architecture for ATM Networks'' by
Fong Liaw, Sun.
The first half of the meeting was spent discussing the ``Multiprotocol
Interconnect over ATM'' Internet Draft written by Juha Heinanen. The
document describes three approaches to encapsulating datagrams in ATM.
These can be divided into two classes: VC Based Encapsulation, and
Multiplexing Encapsulation.
There is general agreement on the VC Based encapsulation method. In
this approach, one protocol per virtual circuit, the Virtual Circuit
identifier is used to identify the protocol being carried.
The two approaches proposed for the multiplexing are roughly equivalent.
They differ in the manner used to identify the protocols being
encapsulated. One uses NLPID (from Frame Relay) and the other uses
LLC's (from 802.x LAN). The Group was not able to agree on which was
preferred. There was some agreement that it would be better to select
only one and that it was not good for uses of ATM to have to choose
between the two, but no consensus was reached. The Group agreed to
change the name of the document to ``Multiprotocol Interconnect over ATM
using AAL5'' because it better describes the method chosen to do the
encapsulation. A separate document may be written that describes doing
encapsulation using other ATM adaptation layer protocol.
Dan Grossman gave a presentation on the recent CCITT meeting. He
reported that the differences between AAL3 and AAL4 have been resolved.
The have been merged to from AAL3/4. AAL5 specification has been
completed and all major technical issues have been resolved.
Doug Hunt gave a presentation on the status of the ATM Forum. The forum
completed its first major Document ``UNI Specification''. They have
begun working on signaling for switched virtual circuits and traffic
management.
Fong Liaw gave a presentation titled ``Network layer Architecture for
ATM Networks''. It addressed issues which have not been resolved in
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private ATM network architectures. The topics included addressing,
routing, multicast, signaling and connection management, and
connection-less services.
Attendees
Masuma Ahmed mxa@sabre.bellcore.com
David Arneson arneson@ctron.com
Randall Atkinson atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil
Sam Ayers s.ayers@sybus.com
Ashar Aziz ashar.aziz@eng.sun.com
Douglas Bagnall deb@proteon.com
Cynthia Bagwell cbagwell@gateway.mitre.org
Tony Ballardie a.ballardie@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Tony Bates tony@ean-relay.ac.uk
Ken Benstead kbenstead@coral.com
C. Douglas Brown cdbrown@sandia.gov
Caralyn Brown cbrown@wellfleet.com
Alan Bryenton bryenton@bnr.ca
John Burnett jlb@adaptive.com
Robert Candela candela@sceng.ub.com
James Carlson carlson@xylogics.com
John Chang jrc@uswest.com
Dilip Chatwani dilip@synoptics.com
Cheng Chen ctc@huey.bellcore.com
Dean Cheng dean@sun2.retix.com
Isaac Choi ichoi@synoptics.com
George Clapp clapp@ameris.center.il.ameritech.com
Henry Clark henryc@oar.net
James Cobban jcobban@bnr.ca
Rob Coltun rcoltun@ni.umd.edu
Jim Comen comenj@interlan.interlan.com
Michael Conn 004387451@mcimail.com
Eric Cooper ecc@fore.com
Tracy Cox tacox@sabre.bellcore.com
Michael DeAddio deaddio@thumper.bellcore.com
Michael DiGioia digioia@interlan.interlan.com
Hans Dittler dittler@conware.de
Jack Drescher drescher@concert.net
Dino Farinacci dino@cisco.com
Dennis Ferguson dennis@mrbill.canet.ca
James Forster forster@cisco.com
Craig Fox foxcj@network.com
Osten Franberg euaokf@eua.ericsson.se
Cliff Frost cliff@cmsa.berkeley.edu
Kathryn Fuller kathryn@codex.com
Kelly Furlong kelly@kyle.ksc.nasa.gov
Atul Garg agarg@synoptics.com
Elise Gerich epg@merit.edu
David Getchell getchell@cisco.com
Daniel Grossman dan@merlin.dev.cdx.mot.com
William Haggerty haggerty@ctron.com
William Hawe hawe@erlang.enet.dec.com
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Frank Heath heath@cmc.com
Juha Heinanen juha.heinanen@datanet.tele.fi
Ittai Hershman ittai@nis.ans.net
Robert Hinden hinden@eng.sun.com
Doug Hunt dhunt@bbn.com
David Husak dave@synnet.com
J. Lance Jackson jackson@noc.harvard.edu
George Kajos kajos@coral.com
Nick Kawaguchi mamster@lanai.cs.ucla.edu
Kenneth Key key@cs.utk.edu
Deidre Kostick dck2@sabre.bellcore.com
Mark Lewis mlewis@telebit.com
Fong-Ching Liaw fong.liaw@eng.sun.com
Arthur Lin yalin@srv.pacbell.com
Ron Mackey rem@dsiinc.com
Andrew Malis malis@bbn.com
Allison Mankin mankin@gateway.mitre.org
Bill Manning bmanning@rice.edu
Keith McCloghrie kzm@hls.com
Paul Moran Paul_Moran@3com.com
Rina Nathaniel rina!rnd!rndi@uunet.uu.net
Jack Ng jkn@network.com
Luc Nguyen luc@bellsouth.com
Erik Nordmark nordmark@eng.sun.com
Ari Ollikainen ari@es.net
Roger Osmond bytex!rfo@uunet.uu.net
Philippe Park ppark@bbn.com
Ed Perreault ed@python.eng.microcom.com
Roy Perry rperry@uswat.uswest.com
Eric Peterson elpeterson@eng.xyplex.com
Venkat Prasad vsp@3com.com
Russell Pretty pretty@bnr.ca
Scott Quinn smq@aries.bellcore.com
K. K. Ramakrishnan rama@erlang.enet.dec.com
Richard Ramos ramos@mtunm.att.com
David Reiser dsr@codex.prds.cdx.mot.com
Salvatore Ricci ricci@mtunm.att.com
Anil Rijsinghani anil@levers.enet.dec.com
Manoel Rodrigues manoel_rodrigues@att.com
Christine Ross ross@warp.interlan.com
Allan Rubens acr@merit.edu
Anthony Rutkowski amr@sprint.com
Timothy Salo tjs@msc.edu
Jonathan Sandberg Jss@mitl.com
Miguel Sasson sasson@xylogics.com
John Sax jsax@bbn.com
Hellen Sears sears@interlan.interlan.com
Henry Sinnreich hsinnreich@mcimail.com
Keith Sklower sklower@cs.berkeley.edu
Lansing Sloan ljsloan@llnl.gov
Andrew Smith asmith@synoptics.com
Frank Solensky solensky@clearpoint.com
Rajesh Srivastava rajesh@flash.tandem.com
Brad Steinka brad@microcom.com
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Scott Stein scotts@apple.com
Roxanne Streeter streeter@nsipo.arc.nasa.gov
Terrance Sullivan terrys@newbridge.com
George Swallow gswallow@bbn.com
Bruce Taber taber@interlan.com
Marten Terpstra terpstra@ripe.net
Linda Tom toml@interlan.interlan.com
Sylvia Tom tom_sylvia@tandem.com
Stephen Tsun snt@nsd.3com.com
Ahmet Tuncay atuncay@synoptics.com
Dono van-Mierop dono_van_mierop@3mail.3com.com
Ross Veach rrv@uiuc.edu
Justin Walker justin@apple.com
James Watt jamesw@newbridge.com
Luanne Waul luanne@wwtc.timeplex.com
Liming Wei liming.wei@eng.sun.com
Jehu Westmark westmark@ds1.scri.fsu.edu
Chris Wheeler cwheeler@cac.washington.edu
Rick Wilder wilder@ans.net
Cathy Wittbrodt cjw@nersc.gov
Jeff Wong jaw@io.att.com
Robert Woodburn woody@cseic.saic.com
Richard Woundy rwoundy@rhqvm21.vnet.ibm.com
Joseph Zur zur@fibhaifa.com
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