IP Over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ipatm) ------------------------------------------ Charter Current status: active working group Chair(s): Mark Laubach Internet Area Director(s): Frank Kastenholz Susan Thomson Mailing lists: General Discussion:ip-atm@matmos.hpl.hp.com To Subscribe: majordomo@matmos.hpl.hp.com In Body: subscribe ip-atm Archive: ftp://ftp.hep.net/ftp/lists-archive/atm Description of Working Group: The IP Over Asynchronous Transfer Mode Working Group will focus on the issues involved in running internetworking protocols over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks. The final goal for the working group is to produce 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 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. Goals and Milestones: Done First meeting. Establish detailed goals and milestones for working group. Done Post an Internet-Draft for a mechanism for IP over ATM. (Multi-Protocol Interconnect over ATM AAL5) Done Submit the Multi-Protocol Interconnect over ATM AAL5 to the IESG as a Proposed Standard. Done Post Internet-Draft for ``Internet Requirements for ATM Signaling.'' Done Submit ``Internet Requirements for ATM Signaling'' to the IESG for consideration as an Informational Document. Internet-Drafts: Posted Revised I-D Title ------ ------- ------------------------------------------ Jan 94 Oct 95 IP over ATM: A Framework Document Sep 94 Sep 95 Support for Multicast over UNI 3.1 based ATM Networks. Jul 95 New IP Multicasting over ATM: System Architecture Issues Aug 95 New IPv6 and Neighbour Discovery over ATM Sep 95 New Classical IP and ARP over ATM Update (Part Deux) Request For Comments: RFC Stat Published Title ------- -- ---------- ----------------------------------------- RFC1483 PS Jul 93 Multiprotocol Encapsulation over ATM Adaptation Layer 5 RFC1577 PS Jan 94 Classical IP and ARP over ATM RFC1626 PS May 94 Default IP MTU for use over ATM AAL5 RFC1754 I Jan 95 IP over ATM Working Group's Recommendations for the ATM Forum's Multiprotocol BOF Version 1 RFC1755 PS Feb 95 ATM Signaling Support for IP over ATM