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From: awaldfog@wellfleet.com (Asher Waldfogel)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Router interoperability
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Date: 25 Oct 89 14:28:33 GMT
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>Bear in mind a potential gotcha: Once the router vendors support PPP, there
>is still the potential for disagreement about the encapsulation of other
>protocols (such as D*CN*T), and some of us need to support multiprotocol
>routers.
>
>Would any of the router vendors like to respond?
>
>Gene

As a member of the PPP working group and a multiprotocol router vendor,
I can vouch that one of the goals of PPP is multiprotocol interoperability.
We have even discussed bridge interoperability.  So far only IP-oriented
vendors have participated in PPP.  I wouldn't count on Decnet- or
bridge- only systems to implement PPP.

Asher Waldfogel
Wellfleet Communications