Network Working Group D. Estrin Request for Comments: 1668 USC Category: Informational T. Li Cisco Systems Y. Rekhter T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM Corp. August 1994
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The following list provides requirements on the IPng from the perspective of the Unified Routing Architecture, as describe in RFC 1322.
destination address.
Two types of routing labels should be supported: "strong" and "weak".
When a packet carries a "strong" routing label and a router does not have a FIB with this label, the packet is discarded (and an error message is sent back to the source).
When a packet carries a "weak" routing label and a router does not have a FIB with this label, the packet should be forwarded via a "default" FIB, i.e., according to the destination address. In addition, the packet should carry an indication that somewhere along the path the desired routing label was unavailable.
- Specification of either individual routers or collections of routers as the entities in the source route. - The option to indicate that two consecutive entities in a source route must share a common subnet in order for the source route to be valid. - Specification of the default behavior when the route to the next entry in the source route is unavailable: - The packet is discarded, or - The source route is ignored and the packet is forwarded based only on the destination address (and the packet header will indicate this action). - A mechanism to verify the feasibility of a source route.
Security issues are not discussed in this memo.
Deborah Estrin
University of Southern California
Computer Science Department, MC 0782
Los Angeles, California 90089-0782
Phone: (310) 740-4524
EMail: estrin@usc.edu
Tony Li
cisco Systems, Inc.
1525 O'Brien Drive
Menlo Park, CA 94025
EMail: tli@cisco.com
Yakov Rekhter
Phone: (914) 945-3896
EMail: yakov@watson.ibm.com