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Router Discovery (rdisc)
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Charter
Last Modified: 27-Jul-97
Current Status: Concluded Working Group
Chair(s):
Steve Deering <deering@cisco.com>
Internet Area Director(s):
Jeffrey Burgan <burgan@home.net>
Thomas Narten <narten@raleigh.ibm.com>
Internet Area Advisor:
Thomas Narten <narten@raleigh.ibm.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:
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
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RFC1256 PS Sep 91 ICMP Router Discovery Messages