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- From: crm57d@bnr.ca (Ken Hayward)
- Subject: Re: (none)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.212317.27075@bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research
- References: <2794@ucl-cs.uucp> <1992Jul27.095627.9605@dxcern.cern.ch>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 21:23:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul27.095627.9605@dxcern.cern.ch> brian@dxcern.cern.ch (Brian
- Carpenter CERN-CN) writes:
- >This raises what I consider to be a very major point... can we solve
- >address management (and name management) such that workstations can
- >use B-ISDN directly, peer-to-peer, and bypass connectionless routing
- >altogether? Now we never managed it with X.25, so I am waiting for
- >somebody to tell me how to do it. Somehow the IETF doesn't seem very
- >interested by this problem ;-)
-
- I believe that the concepts of Directed Arp and/or Shortcut Routing, both being
- worked on in IPLPDN, are in the direction of allowing this. They are currently
- being considered in the area of SMDS, but potentially apply also to any other
- interface that allows multiplexed connectivity to multiple addresses. This
- might include X.25, Frame Relay, and/or ATM/B-ISDN, assuming Switched Virtual
- Circuits are emulated by the latter two.
-
- (I confess that it may be too late to request that routers/workstations support
- either of these for X.25 :-).
-
- Ken Hayward, working for, but not representing, Bell-Northern Research
- crm57d@bnr.ca +1 613 763 4042
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