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Unified Routing Requirements for IPng
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Network Working Group D. Estrin
Request for Comments: 1668 USC
Category: Informational T. Li
Cisco Systems
Y. Rekhter
T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM Corp.
August 1994
Unified Routing Requirements for IPng
Status of this Memo
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does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of
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Abstract
This document was submitted to the IETF IPng area in response to RFC
1550. Publication of this document does not imply acceptance by the
IPng area of any ideas expressed within. Comments should be
submitted to the mailing list.
1. IPng Requirements
The following list provides requirements on the IPng from the
perspective of the Unified Routing Architecture, as describe in RFC
1322.
1. To provide scalable routing, IPng addressing must provide support
for topologically significant address assignment.
2. Since it is hard to predict how routing information will be
aggregated, the IPng addressing structure should impose as few
preconditions as possible on the number of levels in the hierarchy.
Specifically, the number of levels must be allowed to be different
at different parts in the hierarchy. Further, the levels must not
be statically tied to particular parts (fields) in the addressing
information.
3. Hop-by-hop forwarding algorithm requires IPng to carry enough
information in the Network Layer header to unambiguously determine
a particular next hop. Unless mechanisms to compute
context-sensitive forwarding tables and provide consistent
forwarding are defined, the requirement assumes the presence of
full hierarchical addresses. Therefore, IPng packet format must
provide efficient determination of the full hierarchical
Estrin, Li & Rekhter