[ih] early networking: "the solution"

[Andrew G. Malis]

Scott,

ATM could carry any protocol that you could carry over Ethernet, see RFCs
2225, 2492, and 2684.

Cheers,
Andy


On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 8:15 PM Scott Bradner via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

>
>
> > On Apr 20, 2024, at 8:11 PM, John Gilmore via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> >
> > John Day via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> >> In the early 70s, people were trying to figure out how to interwork
> multiple networks of different technologies. What was the solution that was
> arrived at that led to the current Internet?
> >> I conjectured yesterday that the fundamental solution must have been in
> hand by the time Cerf and Kahn published their paper.
> >> Are you conjecturing that the solution was gateways? and hence protocol
> translation at the gateways?
> >
> > Maybe it's too obvious in retrospect.  But the "solution" that I see was
> > that everyone had to move to using a protocol that was independent of
> > their physical medium.
>
> and ATM was an example of the reverse - it was a protocol & a network - OK
> as long as you did not build applications that knew they were running over
> ATM
> (or if ATM had been the last networking protocol)
>
> Scott
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