Router Discovery (rdisc)

Charter

Chair(s):
     Steve Deering, deering@xerox.com

Mailing Lists:
     General Discussion:  gw-discovery@gregorio.stanford.edu
     To Subscribe:  gw-discovery-request@gregorio.stanford.edu
     Archive:

Description of Working Group:

     The Router Discovery Working Group is chartered to adopt or
     develop a protocol that Internet hosts may use to dynamically
     discover the addresses of operational neighboring gateways.
     The group is expected to propose its chosen protocol as a
     standard for gateway discovery in the Internet.

     The work of this group is distinguished from that of the Host
     Configuration Working Group in that this group is concerned
     with the dynamic tracking of router availability by hosts
     rather than the initialization of various pieces of host state
     (which might include router addresses) at host-startup time.

Goals and Milestones:

Done       Created Working Group; established and advertised mailing
           list.  Initiated email discussion to identify existing and
           proposed protocols, for router discovery.

Done       Held first meeting in Palo Alto.  Reviewed 9 candidate
           protocols, and agreed on a hybrid of cisco's GDP and an ICMP
           extension proposed by Deering.

Done       Held second meeting in Tallahassee.  Reviewed the proposed
           protocol and discussed a number of open issues.

Done       Held third meeting in Pittsburgh.  Discussed and resolved
           several issues that had been raised by email since the last
           meeting.  Draft specification of router discovery protocol to
           be ready by next meeting.  Experimental implementations to be
           started.

Aug 1990   Meet in Vancouver.  Review draft specification, and determine
           any needed revisions.  Evaluate results of experimental
           implementations and assign responsibility for additional

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           experiments, as required.  Submit the specification for
           publication as a Proposed Standard shortly after the meeting.

Oct 1990   Revise specification as necessary, based on field experience.
           Ask the IESG to elevate the protocol to Draft Standard
           status.  Disband.



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