Router Requirements (rreq)

Charter

Chair(s):
     Philip Almquist, almquist@jessica.stanford.edu

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Description of Working Group:

     The Router Requirements Working Group has the goal of rewriting
     the existing Router Requirements RFC, RFC-1009, and a) bringing
     it up to the organizational and requirement explicitness levels
     of the Host Requirements RFC's, as well as b) including
     references to more recent work, such as OSPF and BGP.

     The Working Group will also instigate, review, or (if
     appropriate) produce additional RFCs on related topics.  To
     date, group members have produced draft documents discussing
     the operation of routerswhich are in multiple routing domains
     (3 papers), TOS, and a routing table MIB.

     The purposes of this project include:


       o Defining what an IP router does in sufficient detail that
         routers from different vendors are truly interoperable.
       o Providing guidance to vendors, implementors, and
         purchasers of IP routers.


     The Working Group has decided that, unlike RFC-1009, the Router
     Requirements document should not discuss Link Layer protocols
     or address resolution.  Instead, those topics should be covered
     in a separate Link Layer Requirements document, applicable to
     hosts as well as routers.  Whether this group will create the
     Link Layer Requirements is still to be determined.

Goals and Milestones:

Done       First Internet Draft version.

Done       Second Internet Draft version.

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Done       Third Internet Draft version.

Sep 1991   Fourth Internet Draft version

Oct 1991   Final Internet Draft version.

Nov 1991   Submission for Proposed Standard.



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