Subject: New Mailing Lists

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 94 16:37:50 EDT

As a result of the previous AIW just held last week, four new working groups
have been created to discuss adding various enhancements to APPN.  As a
result, a new AIW mailing list has been created for each new working group.
These new groups, the name of the new mailing list, and the function being
discussed in that group are described below:

Migrating APPN to ATM
[email-masked]
Improving APPN to allow easier and dynamic access of ATM services.  Also
discussing how specific ATM services may be reflected in COS, connection
network model, etc.

Border Node
[email-masked]
Adding the capability to interconnect any number of APPN networks, using
the border node function.  This allows for a more dynamic method of
establishing sessions across multiple subnets.

WAN Support
[email-masked]
Discussing ways to improve APPN to enhance the ability to access common
WAN services such as frame relay, ATM, ISDN, and X.25.  This involves making
APPN port definitions more flexible, as well as coming up with generic
WAN support that can be applied to any of the common WAN connection services
being (or will be) offered by carriers.

Multicast Services
[email-masked]
Adding a method to multicast a node's special capabilities or requests to
selected nodes in the APPN CP-CP session tree.

To subscribe to any of these mailing lists, send a note to:
   <mailing list name>[email-masked]
For example, to subscribe to the ATM migration mailing list, send a note to
   [email-masked]

Also, the problem we were experiencing when trying to locate the Networking
file server seems to be solved.  The 'mit.edu' extension should not have to
be used anymore, although using that extension does still work.  Thanks for
patiently hanging in there while we were experiencing these problems.

Cheers,
Tim