A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 7185 Title: Link Metrics for the Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) Routing Protocol OLSRv2 - Rationale Author: C. Dearlove, T. Clausen, P. Jacquet Status: Informational Stream: IETF Date: April 2014 Mailbox: chris.dearlove@baesystems.com, T.Clausen@computer.org, philippe.jacquet@alcatel-lucent.com Pages: 25 Characters: 59906 Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None I-D Tag: draft-ietf-manet-olsrv2-metrics-rationale-04.txt URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7185.txt The Optimized Link State Routing Protocol version 2 (OLSRv2) includes the ability to assign metrics to links and to use those metrics to allow routing by other than minimum hop count routes. This document provides a historic record of the rationale for, and design considerations behind, how link metrics were included in OLSRv2. This document is a product of the Mobile Ad-hoc Networks Working Group of the IETF. INFORMATIONAL: This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. This announcement is sent to the IETF-Announce and rfc-dist lists. To subscribe or unsubscribe, see http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce http://mailman.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-dist For searching the RFC series, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/search For downloading RFCs, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html Requests for special distribution should be addressed to either the author of the RFC in question, or to rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org. Unless specifically noted otherwise on the RFC itself, all RFCs are for unlimited distribution. The RFC Editor Team Association Management Solutions, LLC