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- Network Working Group M. Laubach
- Request for Comments: 1754 Com21, Inc.
- Category: Informational January 1995
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- IP over ATM Working Group's
- Recommendations for the ATM Forum's Multiprotocol BOF
- Version 1
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- Status of this Memo
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- This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo
- does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of
- this memo is unlimited.
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- 1. Abstract
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- This document represents an initial list of requirements submitted to
- the ATM Forum's Multiprotocol BOF for the operation of IP over ATM
- networks as determined by the IETF IP over ATM Working Group and
- other working groups. This RFC is issued for the benefit of community
- members. The information contained in this document is accurate as
- of the date of publication, but is subject to change. Subsequent
- RFCs will reflect such changes.
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- The content of this memo was submitted by the IETF Liaison to the ATM
- Forum as contribution number 94-0954 in the ATM Forum's documentation
- process on 14 September 1994.
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- 2. Notice
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- This contribution has been prepared to assist the ATM Forum. This
- document is offered to the Forum as a basis for discussion between
- the ATM Forum Multiprotocol BOF and the IETF. The statements are
- subject to change in form and content after further study and
- discussion. Specifically, the IETF reserves reserves the right to
- add to, amend or modify the statements contained herein.
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- 3. Introduction
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- The following is the charter statement from the Internet Engineering
- Task Force's (IETF) IP over ATM Working Group (IPATM WG). It is
- being reproduced here for the benefit of those in the ATM Forum who
- may not be familiar with it:
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- "The IP over ATM 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
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- 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).
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- 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 IETF standardization.
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- 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.
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- The Working Group will develop models of ATM internetworking
- architectures. This will be used to guide the development of
- specific IP over ATM protocols.
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- 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.
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- 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."
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- Historically, a large number of IETF IPATM WG participants are
- employees of companies who are principal members of the ATM Forum.
- Requirements between the two organizations have been communicated
- informally by these participants. With the establishment of the ATM
- Forum's Multiprotocol BOF activities, it has become prudent now to
- document IETF requirements in a more formal fashion.
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- At the July 1994 meeting of the IETF in Toronto, Canada, a request
- was presented to the IP over ATM Working Group by the ATM Forum
- Liaison, Drew Perkins, for the working group to prepare a list of
- requirements as input to the ATM Forum's Multiprotocol BOF
- activities. This document is a response to that request.
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- 4. List of Requirements for Consideration
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- 4.1 Standardization & Logistics
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- - Formal communications between the IETF and the ATM Forum
- should be made via IETF <> ATM Forum Liaison(s), specific
- written communications (such as this document), and/or
- presentations made at official IETF or ATM Forum meetings.
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- - IETF standards define how the TCP/IP protocol suite is defined,
- deployed, and carried over specific network technologies,
- including ATM networks [1][2][8].
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- - Any formal communications that affect the IETF standards
- or processes must be made publicly available as the IETF is
- a public international standards body. Ideally, such
- communications should be written as Internet Drafts [1], the
- IETF's equivalent to incoming contributions.
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- - We invite and encourage ATM Forum members to participate in
- the IETF standards process. See [1], [2], and [8] for
- information on how to participate.
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- 4.2 IPv4 Encapsulation
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- - RFC 1483 [3] and RFC 1577 [4] define how IP is encapsulated
- and carried over ATM networks. The IPATM WG requests that any
- ATM Forum Multiprotocol work support these standards as
- specified, and that any future changes to them be made via the
- IETF standards process.
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- 4.3 Routing
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- - RFC 1577 defines the default Logical IP Subnet (LIS) model.
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- - The IETF Routing over Large Clouds Working Group is developing
- the Next Hop Resolution Protocol, which allows the incremental
- optimization of routing (and subnets) by routing datagrams
- over preferential ATM paths [9].
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- - The IETF IP over ATM Working Group will be working on the
- next generation IP over ATM standards after RFC 1577 moves
- from draft to proposed status. Requirements to the ATM
- Forum will be forthcoming.
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- - ATM signaling should give an indication of connection
- over LAN or WAN and include feedback of time vs byte
- charging.
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- 4.4 Security
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- - ATM signaling should support a user information element
- that is used to convey security and authentication information
- between IP members and applications. The IETF IPATM WG would
- like to define the IP specific content of this IE.
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- 4.5 Broadcast and Multicast
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- - The IPATM WG is currently discussing models of how best to map
- IP multicast facilities onto ATM facilities. While this work is
- preliminary, the IETF does support the ATM Forum's currently
- planned multicasting enhancements, such as leaf-initiated joins
- and support of multiple multicast congestion management
- policies. A further list of requirements will be presented at a
- later time.
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- 4.6 Signaling and Addressing
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- - The IPATM WG is currently producing a specification for using
- UNI 3.0 and 3.1 signaling to support RFCs 1483 and 1577. This
- specification will be published as an informational reference
- for UNI 3.0 signaling, and as a proposed standard for UNI 3.1
- signaling following UNI 3.1's ratification and official
- publication.
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- - IPv6 packets will include a Flow ID field intended to support
- service classes in some way. Until the semantics of this field
- are fully defined it is hard to say much, but presumably a soft
- mapping between this and the VC to be used is desirable. A
- further list of requirements will be presented at a later time.
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- - IPv6 addresses will be 16 bytes and there will likely be a
- defined embedding of them inside 20-byte NSAP format. There will
- also likely be a mapping of US-GOSIP-like NSAPs into IPv6
- addresses (deleting the unuseful bytes), but that is still
- controversial in the IPv6 discussions. A further list of
- requirements will be presented at a later time.
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- 4.7 Quality of Service, Performance, and Traffic Management
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- - ATM should support extremely bursty applications with
- significant elasticity in their bandwidth demands.
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- - ATM should support elastic applications as defined in
- RFC-1633 [7] very efficiently. That means enable high
- bottleneck utilization while keeping delay reasonably bounded
- (i.e., doubling delay wouldn't be terrible for elastic apps).
- This should not be at the expense of delay sensitive classes
- of service.
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- - ATM should provide a a class of service which strives to
- cooperate with existing TCP congestion avoidance, thereby
- explicitly providing support not only for directly ATM-attached
- and -aware endstations, but also for endstations on LANs (or
- using LAN Emulation) that are using current TCP implementations
- and interconnected via ATM-attached bridges and routers.
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- - Predictive QoS should be supported in addition to guaranteed QoS
- to support applications which are somewhat tolerant of delay
- variation and low levels of loss.
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- - IP uses both point-to-point and point-to-multipoint (future)
- connections. To satisfy IP's needs an ABR-like service
- would need to be applicable to both types of connections [6].
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- - No specification of minimum or maximum bandwidths by the ATM
- end-systems [6].
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- - As simple as possible [6].
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- - Full line-rate transmission over otherwise-idle links [6].
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- - When end-to-end delay through the network is less than 1 second,
- the cell loss for AAL5 frames over an ABR-like service should be
- on the order of 3 in 10**8 cells for 1500 byte frames, or 3 in
- 10**9 cells for 18 Kbyte frames [6].
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- 5. Security Considerations
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- Security issues raised in this memo will be addressed by the IETF IP
- over ATM Working Group and presented in subsequent updates to this
- memo.
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- 6. Acknowledgement
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- The basis of this memo is a summary of comments made on the email
- discussion list of the IP over ATM Working Group. The contribution
- was reviewed by Drew Perkins and Andy Malis as a sanity check before
- submission to the ATM Forum.
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- 7. References
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- [1] IETF Secretariat and G. Malkin, "The Tao of the IETF - A Guide
- for New Attendees of the Internet Engineering Task Force",
- FYI 17, RFC 1718, CNRI, Xylogics, Inc., November 1994.
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- [2] Internet Architecture Board, and Internet Engineering Steering
- Group, "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 2", RFC 1602,
- IAB, IESG, March 1994.
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- [3] Heinanen, J., "Multiprotocol Encapsulation over ATM Adaptation
- Layer 5", RFC 1483, Telecom Finland, July 1993.
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- [4] Laubach, M., "Classical IP and ARP over ATM", RFC 1577,
- Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, January 1994.
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- [5] Deering, S., "Host Extensions for IP Multicasting", STD 5,
- RFC 1112, Stanford University, August 1989.
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- [6] McCloghrie, K., "Lan-Emulation's Needs for Traffic Management",
- ATM-Forum/94-0533, ATM Forum, June 1994.
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- [7] Braden, R., Clark, D., and S. Shenker, "Integrated Services
- in the Internet Architecture: an Overview", RFC 1633,
- USC/Information Sciences Institute, MIT, Xerox PARC, June 1994.
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- [8] Postel, J., Editor, "Internet Official Protocol Standards",
- STD 1, RFC 1720, USC/Information Sciences Institute, July 1994.
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- [9] Malis, A., "Routing Over Large Clouds Liaison to the ATM Forum
- Multiprotocol BOF", ATM-Forum/94-0766, ATM Forum,
- September 1994.
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- 8. IETF <> ATM Forum Liaison
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- Drew Perkins
- FORE Systems, Inc.
- 174 Thornhill Road
- Warrendale, PA 15086
- Phone: (412) 772-6527
- Fax: (412) 772-6500
- Email: ddp@fore.com
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- 9. Author's Address
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- Mark Laubach
- Com21, Inc.
- 2113 Landings Drive
- Mountain View, CA 94043
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- Phone: (415) 254-5882
- Fax: (415) 254-5883
- EMail: laubach@com21.com
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