RFC 1223 (rfc1223) - Page 2 of 12
OSI CLNS and LLC1 protocols on Network Systems HYPERchannel
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RFC 1223 OSI and LLC1 on HYPERchannel May 1991 2. To describe how multicast protocols such as ES-IS and IS-IS shall operate over HYPERchannel. As a medium, HYPERchannel does not support either broadcast or multicast. Therefore, special techniques are needed to handle these protocols. Note that these techniques do not allow general multicast, although any specific problem may be solved by a generalization of these methods. 3. To make use of a standardized "message type" field in bytes 8 and 9 of the HYPERchannel network message. To permit better interoperability, NSC maintains a "network protocol registry" where any interested party may obtain a unique value in byte 8 (or bytes 8 and 9) for their own public, private, commercial or proprietary protocol. Lists of assigned protocol type numbers and their "owners" would be periodically published by NSC and are available to interested parties. HYPERchannel Network Messages Unlike most datagram delivery systems, the HYPERchannel network message consists of two parts: Message Proper +--------------------+ | | | | | | | 16-64 bytes | | | | | | | +--------------------+ Associated Data +----------------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | Unlimited length | | | | | | | | | | | | | +----------------------------------------------------+ Halpern
