(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
Lotus Development Corporation on 1993-12-22. It was published as
RFC 1707 in October 1994 but it is not an
Internet
standard of any kind.