Re: Comments

Perhaps. My biggest concern was that the Merit paper would be construed as the -only- way an ATM NAP would work. They clearly did not indicate there were potential choices nor did they indicate the assumptions that were made for their test.

Bill, now I doubt if you read the paper carefully or not. First of all, this paper does not design the ATM-NAP architecture BUT is a ROUTING DESIGN for the planned ATM-NAP architecture. Please don't confuse these two different issues. For the planned ATM-NAP architecture (i.e. RFC1490/AAL5) with the current availability of the RS's (i.e. SUN) ATM interface product, what other choices do we have to connect the RS and do NAP routing at this time frame? --Jessica