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IPv6 Backbone Router
draft-ietf-6lo-backbone-router-03

The information below is for an old version of the document.
Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (6lo WG)
Author Pascal Thubert
Last updated 2017-07-17 (Latest revision 2017-01-11)
Stream Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
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Reviews
OPSDIR Last Call Review Incomplete, due 2020-02-06
Stream WG state WG Document
Document shepherd Samita Chakrabarti
IESG IESG state Expired
Consensus boilerplate Unknown
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Send notices to "Samita Chakrabarti" <samitac.ietf@gmail.com>
This Internet-Draft is no longer active. A copy of the expired Internet-Draft can be found at:
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-6lo-backbone-router-03.txt

Abstract

This specification proposes an update to IPv6 Neighbor Discovery, to enhance the operation of IPv6 over wireless links that exhibit lossy multicast support, and enable a large degree of scalability by splitting the broadcast domains. A higher speed backbone federates multiple wireless links to form a large MultiLink Subnet. Backbone Routers acting as Layer-3 Access Point route packets to registered nodes, where an classical Layer-2 Access Point would bridge. Conversely, wireless nodes register or are proxy-registered to the Backbone Router to setup routing services in a fashion that is essentially similar to a classical Layer-2 association.

Authors

Pascal Thubert

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