The Babel Routing Protocol
RFC 8966

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2026-05-20
 (System) Changed metadata: changed keywords to '['Bellman-Ford', 'IGP', 'loop-avoidance', 'mesh network']' from '[]'
2026-05-20
 (System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2026-05-20
 (System) Changed author "D. Schinazi": changed name from "David Schinazi" to "D. Schinazi", cleared country (was "USA"), changed order from "1" to "2"
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
2023-03-01
 (System) Received changes through RFC Editor sync (added Errata tag)
2021-01-15
 (System) IANA registries were updated to include RFC8966
2021-01-11
 (System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8966, changed abstract to 'Babel is a loop-avoiding, distance-vector routing protocol that is robust and …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8966, changed abstract to 'Babel is a loop-avoiding, distance-vector routing protocol that is robust and efficient both in ordinary wired networks and in wireless mesh networks.  This document describes the Babel routing protocol and obsoletes RFC 6126 and RFC 7557.', changed pages to 54, changed standardization level to Proposed Standard, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2021-01-11, changed IESG state to RFC Published, created obsoletes relation between draft-ietf-babel-rfc6126bis and RFC 6126, created obsoletes relation between draft-ietf-babel-rfc6126bis and RFC 7557)
2021-01-11
 (System) RFC published