Grenville Armitage

                            Bellcore

                    gja@thumper.bellcore.com

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Useful URL:

  http://gump.bellcore.com:8000/~gja/i-drafts.html


Points to:

  o  Proposed differences from 05 to 06

  o  draft-smith-ipatm-bcast-01.txt

  o  draft-armitage-ipatm-ipv6mc-00.txt

  o  draft-ietf-ipatm-ipmc-05.txt

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Summary of Changes Since Danvers (04 to 05)

  o  Significant rewrite to improve readability.

  o  Better group revalidation algorithm.

  o  MARS_GROUPLIST_REQUEST/REPLY for basic IGMP support.

  o  MARS_REDIRECT_MAP supports the advertising of backup
     MARS and "hot swapping."

  o  Introduced Class I vs. Class II MARS for clarity.

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Summary of 05 to 06 Proposed Differences

  o  React to WG decision on Class I/II MARS.

  o  Description of new encapsulation's application.

  o  New flag ar$copy in MARS_JOIN.

  o  Hook in MARS packet for supplementary parameters
     to be added in the future.

  (Full text on Web page.)

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draft-smith-ipatm-bcast-01.txt

  o  Assumes MARS service and builds an IP broadcast 
     emulation with it.

  o  Discusses implications for boot-time applications
     (e.g., bootp).

  o  255.255.255.255 and net/subnet broadcast supported
     as special cases of multicast groups.

  o  Discussed alternatives (using just ARP server).

  o  Hope it will become WG work item.

  o  Worth reading.

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draft-armitage-ipatm-encaps-02.txt

  o  Bryan Gleeson has been significant help.

  o  8 options discussed (LLC/SNAP variants).

  o  Prefer option #6.

  o  [0xAA-AA-03][0x00-00-5E][0x00-01][CMI][pro][IP packet]

  o  Tentative allocation of PID 0x00-01 under IANA OUI space.

  o  'pro' field values:
     - 0x0 to 0x5FF        Reserved.
     - 0x600 to 0xFFFF     Ethertypes.