Subject: Reply to David Matusow email on the proposed charter change

From: "Marcia Peters (8-444-4380)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 95 15:02:30 EDT

David,

You said

>> This seems reasonable, but it seems we need to develop an overall ATM
>> direction.  Whether we create a separate one for HPR or create a
>> generalized ATM group that deals with HPR as a component, seems
>> unclear as to the proper direction.

Thanks for your comment.  Since you weren't at the last AIW and the
minutes only recently went out, let me get you up to date.

The AIW has a clear APPN-over-ATM direction as a result of informal
consensus at AIWs 7 and 8.  That direction is spelled out in IBM's HPR
submission
(http://www.raleigh.ibm.com/pub/standards/aiw/hpr/atm-01.psbin) and in
the minutes of the ATM BOF (see 30 Aug 1995 note from Gary Dudley on
this mail exploder).  To summarize, it was agreed at AIW 7 that HPR is a
prerequisite for SNA native ATM access architecture.  Because of this
affinity, the HPR SIG, the ATM BOF, and later the AIW plenary session
agreed at AIW 8 that the HPR SIG is a suitable forum for development of
this architecture.  The proposed charter change is simply a realization
of a previously-agreed-to principle.

Marcia Peters, Chair