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To: Dan Breslau who wrote (6709)	9/6/2000 11:41:45 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14638

Because it's IP that the applications see. And that's where the money is. Nobody knows that better than Nortel but data must pay its way and, at present, it does not.

To: Dan Breslau who wrote (6709)	9/6/2000 12:26:02 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14638

Something has to be the underlying protocol -- why not ATM? As you say, it provides QoS -- so the IP hardware doesn't have to do all the work. Does this denegrate IP in any way? Not hardly. Because it's IP that the applications see. Dan, doesn't assigning the QoS functions to ATM obviate the need for those functions to be carried in IP? If so, application interoperability in a heterogeneous environment like the public internet would depend on ATM interoperability. This seems to me to "denegrate" IP's major advantage in such environments.