Technical Criteria for Choosing IP The Next Generation (IPng)
RFC 1726
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Network Working Group C. Partridge
Request for Comments: 1726 BBN Systems and Technologies
Category: Informational F. Kastenholz
FTP Software
December 1994
Technical Criteria for Choosing
IP The Next Generation (IPng)
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 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 big-internet@munnari.oz.au mailing list. This RFC specifies
criteria related to mobility for consideration in design and
selection of the Next Generation of IP.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Note on Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. General Principles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4.1 Architectural Simplicity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4.2 One Protocol to Bind Them All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4.3 Live Long . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.4 Live Long AND Prosper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.5 Co-operative Anarchy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5. Criteria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5.1 Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.2 Topological Flexibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.3 Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5.4 Robust Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.5 Transition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5.6 Media Independence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.7 Unreliable Datagram Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5.8 Configuration, Administration, and Operation. . . . . . . 16
5.9 Secure Operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5.10 Unique Naming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
5.11 Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5.12 Multicast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
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5.13 Extensibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
5.13.1 Algorithms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
5.13.2 Headers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
5.13.3 Data Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
5.13.4 Packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
5.14 Network Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
5.15 Support for Mobility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5.16 Control Protocol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
5.17 Private Networks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
6. Things We Chose Not to Require. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
6.1 Fragmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
6.2 IP Header Checksum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
6.3 Firewalls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
6.4 Network Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
6.5 Accounting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
6.6 Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
6.6.1 Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
6.6.2 Policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
6.6.3 QOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
6.6.4 Feedback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
6.6.5 Stability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
6.6.6 Multicast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
7. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
9. Acknowledgements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
10. Authors' Addresses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
1. Introduction
This version of this memo was commissioned by the IPng area of the
IETF in order to define a set of criteria to be used in evaluating
the protocols being proposed for adoption as the next generation of
IP.
The criteria presented here were culled from several sources,
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