A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Depth-First Forwarding in Unreliable Networks (DFF) Author(s) : Ulrich Herberg Alvaro A. Cardenas Tadashige Iwao Michael L. Dow Sandra L. Cespedes Filename : draft-cardenas-dff-11.txt Pages : 41 Date : 2013-04-16 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). DFF assumes that the underlying link layer provides means to detect if a packet has been successfully delivered to the next hop or not, is designed for networks with little traffic, and is used for unicast transmissions only. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cardenas-dff There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cardenas-dff-11 A diff from the previous version is available at: http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-cardenas-dff-11 Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt