The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Depth-First Forwarding in Unreliable Networks (DFF)' <draft-cardenas-dff-09.txt> as Experimental RFC The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2013-02-24. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract This document specifies the "Depth-First Forwarding" (DFF) protocol for IPv6 networks, a data forwarding mechanism that can increase reliability of data delivery in networks with dynamic topology and/or lossy links. The protocol operates entirely on the forwarding plane, but may interact with the routing plane. DFF forwards data packets using a mechanism similar to a "depth-first search" for the destination of a packet. The routing plane may be informed of failures to deliver a packet or loops. This document specifies the DFF mechanism both for IPv6 networks (as specified in RFC2460) and in addition also for LoWPAN "mesh-under" networks (as specified in RFC4944). The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cardenas-dff/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cardenas-dff/ballot/ The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D: http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1645/ http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1646/
