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- Router Discovery (rdisc)
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- Charter
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- Chair(s):
- Steve Deering <>
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- Internet Area Director(s)
- Stev Knowles <stev@ftp.com>
- David Piscitello <dave@mail.bellcore.com>
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- Mailing lists:
- General Discussion:gw-discovery@gregorio.stanford.edu
- To Subscribe: gw-discovery-request@gregorio.stanford.edu
- Archive:
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- Description of Working Group:
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Goals and Milestones:
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- Ongoing Gather implementation and operational experience, revise the
- specification to reflect lessons learned, and submit the protocol for
- Draft Standard.
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- Done Created Working Group; established and advertised mailing list.
- Initiated email discussion to identify existing and proposed
- protocols, for router discovery.
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- 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.
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- Done Held second meeting in Tallahassee. Reviewed the proposed protocol
- and discussed a number of open issues.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Done Revise specification as necessary, based on field experience. Ask
- the IESG to elevate the protocol to Draft Standard status. Disband.
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- Internet Drafts:
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- No Current Internet drafts.
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- Request For Comments:
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- RFC Stat Published Title
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- RFC1256 PS Sep 91 ICMP Router Discovery Messages
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