Technical Summary
A local host may have multiple points of attachment to the
Internet, giving it a degree of fault tolerance from
hardware failures. SCTP was developed to take full advantage
of such a multi-homed host to provide a fast failover and
association survivability in the face of such hardware
failures. This document describes an extension to SCTP that
will allow an SCTP stack to dynamically add an IP Addresses
to an SCTP association, dynamically delete an IP addresses
from an SCTP association, and to request to set the primary
address the peer will use when sending to an endpoint.
Working Group Summary
There is WG consensus to publish this document. It has been
reviewed by several people in the WG last call. Comments
raised have been addressed.
Document Quality
Several SCTP implementations, including Solaris, BSD, Linux and HP,
have implemented this extension.
Personnel
James Polk (jmpolk@cisco.com) is the document Shepherd. Lars
Eggert (lars.eggert@nokia.com) is the responsible Area
Director.