Common Architecture for Next Generation Internet Protocol


Common Architecture for Next Generation Internet Protocol

(networking)(CATNIP, originally Common ArchitectureTechnology for Next-generation Internet Protocol)

A network architecture designed to provide a compressed formof the existing network layer protocols and to integrateCLNP, IP, and IPX. It provides for any of thetransport layer protocols in use, including TP4, CLTP,TCP, UDP, IPX, and SPX, to run over any of the networklayer protocol formats: CLNP, IP (version 4), IPX and CATNIP.

CATNIP was originally proposed by Robert L. Ullmann of Lotus Development Corporation on 1993-12-22. It was published asRFC 1707 in October 1994 but it is not an Internetstandard of any kind.