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IPng Technical Requirements Of the Nimrod Routing and Addressing Architecture

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Network Working Group                                         N. Chiappa
Request for Comments: 1753                                 December 1994
Category: Informational


                      IPng Technical Requirements
           Of the Nimrod Routing and Addressing Architecture

Status of this Memo

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  This memo
   does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of
   this memo is unlimited.

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.

   This document presents the requirements that the Nimrod routing and
   addressing architecture has upon the internetwork layer protocol. To
   be most useful to Nimrod, any protocol selected as the IPng should
   satisfy these requirements. Also presented is some background
   information, consisting of i) information about architectural and
   design principles which might apply to the design of a new
   internetworking layer, and ii) some details of the logic and
   reasoning behind particular requirements.

1. Introduction

   It is important to note that this document is not "IPng Requirements
   for Routing", as other proposed routing and addressing designs may
   need different support; this document is specific to Nimrod, and
   doesn't claim to speak for other efforts.

   However, although I don't wish to assume that the particular designs
   being worked on by the Nimrod WG will be widely adopted by the
   Internet (if for no other reason, they have not yet been deployed and
   tried and tested in practise, to see if they really work, an
   absolutely necessary hurdle for any protocol), there are reasons to
   believe that any routing architecture for a large, ubiquitous global
   Internet will have many of the same basic fundamental principles as
   the Nimrod architecture, and the requirements that these generate.






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