Common Architecture for Next Generation Internet Protocol

networking (CATNIP, originally Common Architecture

Technology for Next-generation Internet Protocol)

A network architecture designed to provide a compressed form

of the existing network layer protocols and to integrate

CLNP, IP, and IPX. It provides for any of the

transport layer protocols in use, including TP4, CLTP,

TCP, UDP, IPX, and SPX, to run over any of the network

layer protocol formats: CLNP, IP (version 4), IPX, and CATNIP.

CATNIP was originally proposed by Robert L. Ullmann of LotusDevelopment Corporation on 1993-12-22. It was published as

RFC 1707 in October 1994 but it is not an Internet

standard of any kind.

(1996-03-23)