@techreport{whittle-ivip-etr-addr-forw-01, number = {draft-whittle-ivip-etr-addr-forw-01}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-whittle-ivip-etr-addr-forw/01/}, author = {Robin Whittle}, title = {{Ivip4 ETR Address Forwarding}}, pagetotal = 37, year = 2010, month = jul, day = 8, abstract = {ETR Address Forwarding (EAF) is a novel method by which an IPv4 Core- Edge Separation solution to the Internet's routing scaling problem can tunnel packets from an ITR to an ETR. EAF involves using 31 bits of the IPv4 header for new purposes: bit 48, the More Fragments flag, the Fragment Offset field and the Header Checksum field - to carry a 30 bit ETR address. Consequently, packets in this format need to be handled by routers with upgraded functionality. EAF is an alternative to encapsulation and has advantages including: simpler ITRs and ETRs, direct support for conventional RFC 1191 PMTUD, no encapsulation overhead and full compatibility with IPsec AH and Traceroute. This I-D also briefly explores an alternative to this approach: a new header, of the same length and different, with a different 4 bit Version, to carry 31 bits of ETR address.}, }