A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Source Packet Routing in Networking Working Group of the IETF. Title : SPRING Problem Statement and Requirements Authors : Stefano Previdi Clarence Filsfils Bruno Decraene Stephane Litkowski Martin Horneffer Rob Shakir Filename : draft-ietf-spring-problem-statement-04.txt Pages : 16 Date : 2015-04-27 Abstract: The ability for a node to specify a forwarding path, other than the normal shortest path, that a particular packet will traverse, benefits a number of network functions. Source-based routing mechanisms have previously been specified for network protocols, but have not seen widespread adoption. In this context, the term 'source' means 'the point at which the explicit route is imposed' and therefore it is not limited to the originator of the packet (i.e.: the node imposing the explicit route may be the ingress node of an operator's network). This document outlines various use cases, with their requirements, that need to be taken into account by the Source Packet Routing in Networking (SPRING) architecture for unicast traffic. Multicast use- cases and requirements are out of scope of this document. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-spring-problem-statement/ There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-spring-problem-statement-04 A diff from the previous version is available at: http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-spring-problem-statement-04 Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. 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