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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>The practice of encapsulating IP packets within DDP was originally developed at <a href="/facts/Stanford_University/JEQeF9z2">Stanford University</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> as the Stanford Ethernet - AppleTalk Gateway (SEAGATE) by Bill Croft in 1984 and 1985.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p><p>The SEAGATE hardware was commercialized by Kinetics in 1985. The <a href="/facts/Kinetics_Internet_Protocol/QIv23abL">Kinetics Internet Protocol</a> (KIP) was used to integrate with their <a href="/facts/FastPath/mgIJ2AyV">FastPath</a> <a href="/facts/LocalTalk-to-Ethernet_bridge/lMgaAovE">LocalTalk-to-Ethernet bridge</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> <a href="/facts/Apple_Computer/oTJYta3k">Apple Computer</a> embraced the use of the encapsulation technology, which came to be known as MacIP. </p><p>One of the mandates for the <a href="/facts/Internet_Engineering_Task_Force/tIcCsFhX">Internet Engineering Task Force</a> (IETF) "IP over AppleTalk" <a href="/facts/IETF_Working_Group/tIcCsFhX">working group</a> was to document existing MacIP implementations and to develop a specification for MacIP that could be proposed as a standard.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> A draft document was submitted, however it was not accepted as a standard and has subsequently expired.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li>Kinetics <a href="/facts/FastPath/mgIJ2AyV">FastPath</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/GatorBox/SpfV6Tne">GatorBox</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/LocalTalk-to-Ethernet_bridge/lMgaAovE">LocalTalk-to-Ethernet bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Netatalk/6U6Vjqwu">Netatalk</a>, which provides an open source MacIP gateway since version 4.0</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-appleip-MacIP-02">MacIP Internet Draft</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120806143846/http://support.apple.com/kb/TA40190?viewlocale=en_US">TCP/IP Packets: How AppleTalk Encapsulation Works</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.vintagemacworld.com/apple_software.html">Page describing software required to connect vintage Apple computers to networks</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3649/is_199503/ai_n8727169">Network World article "Apple IP Gateway spurs ANF on MacIP standard"</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.knubbelmac.de/themen/netzwerke/cisco-macip-gateway.html">Page describing how to use Cisco routers as MacIP gateways</a> <a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.knubbelmac.de%2Fthemen%2Fnetzwerke%2Fcisco-macip-gateway.html">English translation</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Cisco.com: AppleTalk Support Discontinuation <a href="http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/ios-nx-os-software/ios-packaging/product_bulletin_c25-520459.html" target="_blank">http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/ios-nx-os-software/ios-packaging/product_bulletin_c25-520459.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Cisco.com: Setting Up MacIP, Doc-ID 10679 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050508123156/http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/701/9.pdf" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20050508123156/http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/701/9.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>MacWorld 2004 Keynote: A History Of Macintosh Networking - reported notes - See "Macs and the Internet: a long digression" <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040825091335/http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=04%2F01%2F07%2F1555239&mode=thread" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20040825091335/http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=04%2F01%2F07%2F1555239&mode=thread</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>MacWorld 2004 Keynote: A History Of Macintosh Networking - relevant slide Archived 2006-10-16 at the Wayback Machine <a href="http://www.opendoor.com/nethistory/MacWorld2004/pages/slide45.html" target="_blank">http://www.opendoor.com/nethistory/MacWorld2004/pages/slide45.html</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Bill Croft announces SEAGATE in TCP-IP list - See "000007" <a href="http://securitydigest.org/tcp-ip/archive/1985/02#000007" target="_blank">http://securitydigest.org/tcp-ip/archive/1985/02#000007</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Bill Croft declares in net.micro.mac that Kinetics are using a modified version of the SEAGATE code <a href="https://groups.google.com/group/net.micro.mac/browse_frm/thread/9defdc53193b85e5/f084989e3da699cb?lnk=gst&q=seagate+appletalk&rnum=2#f084989e3da699cb" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/group/net.micro.mac/browse_frm/thread/9defdc53193b85e5/f084989e3da699cb?lnk=gst&q=seagate+appletalk&rnum=2#f084989e3da699cb</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>IP Over AppleTalk Working Group Charter <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/95jul/charters/appleip-charter.html" target="_blank">http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/95jul/charters/appleip-charter.html</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Internet-Drafts Database entry <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/idindex.cgi?command=id_detail&id=210" target="_blank">https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/idindex.cgi?command=id_detail&id=210</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Latest draft document with content removed <a href="http://www.faqs.org/ftp/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-appleip-MacIP-03.txt" target="_blank">http://www.faqs.org/ftp/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-appleip-MacIP-03.txt</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>A Method for the Transmission of Internet Packets Over AppleTalk Networks [MacIP] <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-appleip-MacIP-02" target="_blank">https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-appleip-MacIP-02</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>