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New Internet Routing and Addressing Architecture (nimrod)

NOTE: This charter is a snapshot of that in effect at the time of the 38th IETF Meeting in Memphis, Tennessee. It may now be out-of-date.

Chair(s):

J. Noel Chiappa <jnc@lcs.mit.edu>
Isidro Castineyra <isidro@bbn.com>
David Bridgham <dab=ietf@epilogue.com>

Routing Area Director(s):

Joel Halpern <jhalpern@newbridge.com>

Mailing Lists:

General Discussion:nimrod-wg@bbn.com
To Subscribe: nimrod-wg-request@bbn.com
Archive: ftp://bbn.com/pub/nimrod-wg/nimrod-wg.archive

Description of Working Group:

The goal of the working group is to design, specify, implement and test a flexible new routing and addressing architecture suitable for very large scale internets. The basic architecture for computation of routes will be based on distribution of network topology maps, with source-specified route selection, and unitary (i.e., not hop-by-hop) computation of routes.

The architecture will provide a single homogeneous framework for all routing, including both inter-domain and intra-domain. It will include a new network component naming abstraction hierarchy, starting from network attachment points, and based on actual connectivity, but taking into consideration policy requirements. These new names will be variable length, with a variable number of levels of abstraction; they will not appear in most packets, though.

Actual packet forwarding will be based both on retained non-critical state in the switches (via flow setup for long-lived communications), and both classical address-only, as well as source-route type instructions, in individual packets (for datagram applications which send only one, or a very few, packets).

Although the general design and algorithms will be usable in any internetworking protocol family, the initial detailed protocol specifications and implementation are currently planned for deployment with IPv4, but support for another packet format may be substituted or added, depending on the situation in the Internet in the future. Interoperability with existing unmodified IPv4 hosts will be achieved by re-interpreting the existing source and destination fields in IPv4 packets as endpoint identifiers.

A substantial effort to take into account support for mobility, multicast and resource allocation will be made when designing the Nimrod architecture; provided that so doing is neither impossible because of incomplete work outside the scope of Nimrod, nor the cause of very substantial delays in the first iteration of the protocol design.

Goals and Milestones:

Done

Commence project.

Done

Complete the review and discussion of the fundamentals of the routing and addressing architecture.

Done

Produce a draft architecture document, which will also serve as an in-depth introduction to Nimrod.

Done

Issue Internet-Drafts containing the design of the basic routing and addressing architecture and protocols.

Sep 94

Produce a first version of the protocol specification, which embodies the completed basic routing and addressing architecture. Issue this document as an Internet-Draft.

Nov 94

Finish design of all the detailed mechanisms, including sample algorithms for those parts that are outside the core specification. Issue an Internet-Draft describing these.

Dec 94

Issue a usage guide as an Internet-Draft. This guide will describe recommended clustering strategies and configurations.

Jul 95

Finish an initial prototype protocol implementation, suitable for experimentation within the Internet, to allow field trials.

Oct 95

Complete an initial field trial of the prototype protocol and implementation.

Jul 96

After assessing the performance of the protocols and sample algorithms, based on operational experience, release an updated protocol specification and sample algorithms.

Internet-Drafts:

· DNS Resource Records for Nimrod Routing Architecture

· Endpoint Identifier Destination Option

Request For Comments:

RFC

Status

Title

RFC1992

I

The Nimrod Routing Architecture

RFC2103

I

Mobility Support for Nimrod : Challenges and Solution Approaches

RFC2102

I

Multicast Support for Nimrod : Requirements and Solution Approaches

Current Meeting Report

The Working Group did not meet.

Slides

None Received

Done		Commence project.
Done		Complete the review and discussion of the fundamentals of the routing and addressing architecture.
Done		Produce a draft architecture document, which will also serve as an in-depth introduction to Nimrod.
Done		Issue Internet-Drafts containing the design of the basic routing and addressing architecture and protocols.
Sep 94		Produce a first version of the protocol specification, which embodies the completed basic routing and addressing architecture. Issue this document as an Internet-Draft.
Nov 94		Finish design of all the detailed mechanisms, including sample algorithms for those parts that are outside the core specification. Issue an Internet-Draft describing these.
Dec 94		Issue a usage guide as an Internet-Draft. This guide will describe recommended clustering strategies and configurations.
Jul 95		Finish an initial prototype protocol implementation, suitable for experimentation within the Internet, to allow field trials.
Oct 95		Complete an initial field trial of the prototype protocol and implementation.
Jul 96		After assessing the performance of the protocols and sample algorithms, based on operational experience, release an updated protocol specification and sample algorithms.

RFC	Status	Title

RFC1992	I	The Nimrod Routing Architecture
RFC2103	I	Mobility Support for Nimrod : Challenges and Solution Approaches
RFC2102	I	Multicast Support for Nimrod : Requirements and Solution Approaches