Homenet Working Group                                          R. Bellis
Internet-Draft                                                       ISC
Intended status: Informational                               W. Townsley
Expires: May 21, 2016                                              Cisco
                                                       November 18, 2015


                     Homenet Routing Consensus Call
              draft-ietf-homenet-routing-consensus-call-00

Abstract

   In order to support arbitrary network topologies and multi-homing the
   IETF Homenet Architecture [RFC7368] requires that a routing protocol
   operates inside each home network.  For interoperability reasons it
   is necessary for there be a single "mandatory to implement" routing
   protocol.  With the Homenet Working Group unable to reach clear
   consensus on which protocol that should be the Working Group Chairs
   (with the support of the Internet Area Director) declared rough
   consensus that the chosen protocol is BABEL [RFC6126].  This document
   confirms this decision for the record.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   4.  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   5.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3

1.  Statement

   On the 27th of October, 2015, the Working Group Chairs and the
   Internet Area Director made the following statement to the Homenet
   Mailing List:

      The Chairs believe that there is WG consensus that a single
      "mandatory to implement" routing protocol must be chosen.  We also
      believe that further delaying the direction here has long passed
      the point of diminishing returns.

      Based on the feedback received in Prague and on the WG mailing
      list thereafter, we are therefore declaring rough consensus that
      BABEL [RFC6126] shall be the "mandatory to implement" routing
      protocol for Homenet routers, albeit only on an Experimental basis
      at this time.

      The aim in making this decision is to allow the non-routing-
      protocol aspects of Homenet to move forward in the near term,
      while allowing time for additional implementation, experimentation
      and specification.  To that end, we solicit Experimental Internet
      Drafts to document Homenet-specific profiles of any applicable
      routing solution and to report results of any relevant
      experimentation and implementation.

      We expect that this decision will be revisited in a future
      Standards Track document based on specifications and running code
      available at that time.

      Vendors looking to ship Homenet routers in the near term should
      refer to [RFC6126], [RFC7557],
      [I-D.boutier-babel-source-specific], and available open source




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      implementations thereof for the routing protocol portion of the
      Homenet solution space.

2.  IANA Considerations

   This document has no IANA considerations.

3.  Security Considerations

   This document has no security considerations.

4.  Acknowledgements

   We wish to thank Terry Manderson (INT Area AD) for his support.

5.  Informative References

   [RFC7368]  Chown, T., Ed., Arkko, J., Brandt, A., Troan, O., and J.
              Weil, "IPv6 Home Networking Architecture Principles", RFC
              7368, DOI 10.17487/RFC7368, October 2014,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7368>.

   [RFC6126]  Chroboczek, J., "The Babel Routing Protocol", RFC 6126,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC6126, April 2011,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6126>.

   [RFC7557]  Chroboczek, J., "Extension Mechanism for the Babel Routing
              Protocol", RFC 7557, DOI 10.17487/RFC7557, May 2015,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7557>.

   [I-D.boutier-babel-source-specific]
              Boutier, M. and J. Chroboczek, "Source-Specific Routing in
              Babel", draft-boutier-babel-source-specific-01 (work in
              progress), May 2015.

Authors' Addresses

   Ray Bellis
   Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
   950 Charter Street
   Redwood City  CA 94063
   USA

   Phone: +1 640 423 1200
   Email: ray@isc.org






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