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- From: myoung@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.cell-relay
- Subject: Re: Mapping to VCs...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.174502.1480@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 17:45:02 GMT
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- >| Is anyone seriously planning on bypassing IP (ie, TCP<->AAL5/ATM) or
- >| developing very light-weight transport level protocols that are
- >| AAL5-ATM specific?
- >+---------------
- >
- >There's really no point in it. As modern implementations of TCP/IP
- >have shown, TCP/IP isn't really so "heavyweight" after all.
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- In fact everything the distributed data applications want to do can
- be done with TCP/IP and the Unix file hierarchy. Like: index all
- corporate files by a single key, by title, date, and provide uniform
- (single schema definition) access. If objects have embedded linkage
- then certainly that can be accessed and recursed also. An in fact with
- the suitable interfaces to each of the partitions (file, network, object),
- the entire system can be managed under a single access strategy.
-
- The debate (between Mircosoft, Novell, Taligent, SUN etc) is:
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- Do we use suitable interfaces to existing structures, or do
- we re-build from the ground up with a single access protocol?
-