Common Architecture for Next Generation IP (CATNIP)

Charter 

Chair(s)

      Vladimir Sukonnik:  sukonnik@process.com

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Description of Working Group

     CATNIP is a new version of the IP protocol, converged with a
     compressed form of CLNP, and a form of Novell IPX that permits
     general interoperation.  The objective is to provide common
     ground between the Internet, OSI, and the Novell protocols, as
     well as to advance the Internet technology to the scale and
     performance of the next generation of internetwork technology.
     CATNIP has been assigned the IP version number 7.  The CATNIP
     proposal has evolved from the TP/IX protocol (RFC 1475) and the
     TUBA proposal (RFC 1347).

     The working group is chartered to review the CATNIP protocol,
     evaluate issues arising during product development and
     deployment planning, and to document problems and explanations
     for any parts of the coexistance with IPv4 not covered directly
     in the CATNIP-IPv4 interoperation design.

     CATNIP includes definitions covering the same ground as the
     TUBA project, and within the charter of the TUBA Working Group.
     This will be handled by coordination with the TUBA Working
     Group.  The intent is to arrive at complete alignment between
     the TUBA work and the CLNP component in CATNIP.

     The group will also continue to be the forum for development of
     the RAP protocol and the TCP extensions while in experimental
     status; this work will need to be moved to the Transport and
     Routing Area(s) if it is to be advanced; this work is outside
     the charter of the IPng Area.

Goals and Milestones

Feb 1994   Produce Internet-Draft on CATNIP/TUBA technical differences

Mar 1994   Submit CATNIP Internet-Draft to IESG for consideration as an
           Experimental protocol


Internet-Drafts

     ``Common Architecture for Next-generation Internet Protocol'',
     03/21/1994, R. Ullmann <draft-ietf-catnip-base-03.txt>

     ``CATNIP: Common Architecture for the Internet'', 03/21/1994,
     M. McGovern, R. Ullmann <draft-ietf-catnip-common-arch-00.txt>