Router Discovery (rdisc) ------------------------ Charter Last Modified: 27-Jul-97 Current Status: Concluded Working Group Chair(s): Steve Deering Internet Area Director(s): Jeffrey Burgan Thomas Narten Internet Area Advisor: Thomas Narten 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: Oct 88 Gather implementation and operational experience, revise the specification to reflect lessons learned, and submit the protocol for Draft Standard. 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. Done Meet in Vancouver. Review draft specification, and determine any needed revisions. Evaluate results of experimental implementations and assign responsibility for additional experiments, as required. Submit the specification for publication as a Proposed Standard shortly after the meeting. Done Revise specification as necessary, based on field experience. Ask the IESG to elevate the protocol to Draft Standard status. Disband. Internet-Drafts: No Current Internet-Drafts. Request For Comments: RFC Stat Published Title ------- -- ---------- ----------------------------------------- RFC1256 PS Sep 91 ICMP Router Discovery Messages