from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Common Architecture for Next Generation Internet Protocol
CATNIP
<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 {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.
(1996-03-23)