Router Requirements (rreq)

Charter 
 
Chair(s):
     Philip Almquist  <>
 
Internet Area Director(s) 
     Stev Knowles  <stev@ftp.com>
     David Piscitello  <dave@mail.bellcore.com>
 
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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 routers which are in
multiple routing domains (3 papers), TOS, and a routing table MIB.

The purposes of this project include:

- Defining what an IP router does in sufficient detail that
  routers from different vendors are truly interoperable.

- 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.                                       

     Done Third Internet-Draft version.                                        

     Done Fourth Internet-Draft version.                                       

   Oct 91 Final Internet-Draft version.                                        

   Nov 91 Submission for Proposed Standard.                                    


Internet Drafts:

Posted Revised       I-D Title  <Filename>
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 Sep 90 Mar 93  <draft-ietf-rreq-iprouters-04.txt> 
                Requirements for IP Routers Volume 1: Introduction             

Request For Comments:

  RFC  Stat Published    Title 
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RFC1354 PS   Jul 92     IP Forwarding Table MIB                                
 
RFC1349 PS   Jul 92     Type of Service in the Internet Protocol Suite