Network Working Group S. Bradner
Request for Comments: 1752 Harvard University
Category: Standards Track A. Mankin
ISI
January 1995
The Recommendation for the IP Next Generation Protocol
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Abstract
This document presents the recommendation of the IPng Area Directors
on what should be used to replace the current version of the Internet
Protocol. This recommendation was accepted by the Internet
Engineering Steering Group (IESG).
Table of Contents
1. Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. A Direction for IPng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4. IPng Area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5. ALE Working Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5.1 ALE Projections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.2 Routing Table Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.3 Address Assignment Policy Recommendations. . . . . . . . 8
6. IPng Technical Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6.1 The IPng Technical Criteria document . . . . . . . . . . 9
7. IPng Proposals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7.1 CATNIP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7.2 SIPP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7.3 TUBA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
8. IPng Proposal Reviews. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
8.1 CATNIP Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
8.2 SIPP Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
8.3 TUBA Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
8.4 Summary of Proposal Reviews. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
9. A Revised Proposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
10 Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
10.1 Criteria Document and Timing of Recommendation . . . . . 18
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