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Applicability of the Babel Routing Protocol
RFC 8965

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2026-05-20
(System) Changed metadata: changed keywords to '['distance-vector', 'loop', 'starvation', 'Bellman-Ford', 'routing', 'routing protocol', 'wireless', 'mesh network', 'IGP']' from '[]'
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2026-05-20
(System)
Changed author "J. Chroboczek": changed name from "Juliusz Chroboczek" to "J. Chroboczek", changed affiliation from "IRIF, University of Paris-Diderot" to "IRIF University of Paris-Diderot", cleared …
Changed author "J. Chroboczek": changed name from "Juliusz Chroboczek" to "J. Chroboczek", changed affiliation from "IRIF, University of Paris-Diderot" to "IRIF University of Paris-Diderot", cleared country (was "France"), changed order from "0" to "1"
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2021-01-11
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8965, changed title to 'Applicability of the Babel Routing Protocol', changed abstract to 'Babel is …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8965, changed title to 'Applicability of the Babel Routing Protocol', changed abstract to 'Babel is a routing protocol based on the distance-vector algorithm augmented with mechanisms for loop avoidance and starvation avoidance.  This document describes a number of niches where Babel has been found to be useful and that are arguably not adequately served by more mature protocols.', changed pages to 10, changed standardization level to Informational, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2021-01-11, changed IESG state to RFC Published)
2021-01-11
(System) RFC published