Internet DRAFT - draft-omar-nep
draft-omar-nep
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Khaled Omar
Internet-Draft The Road
Intended status: Experimental L. Camara
Expires: April 20, 2021 October 20, 2020
Numbering Exchange Protocol (NEP)
Specification
draft-omar-nep-09
Abstract
This document specifies the Numbering Exchange Protocol (NEP), an
Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) that combines three metrics: delay,
bandwidth and number of hops.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ...................................................1
2. Numbering Exchange Protocol (NEP) ..............................2
2.1. RIDs and their Advertising ...................................4
2.1.1. Advertising Beyond a Router's Neighbours ...................5
2.1.2. Detecting Conflict on RIDs..................................5
2.2. Echo Mechanism ...............................................5
2.2.1. Detecting Routers that Leaved a NEP Network ................5
2.3. Topology Advertisement .......................................6
2.3.1. The NEP Metric .............................................7
3. NEP Loop Prevention ............................................7
4. Subnet Advertisement ...........................................8
4.1. Specification ...............................................10
4.2. Routing Packets within a NEP AS .............................11
5. IANA Considerations ...........................................11
6. Security Considerations .......................................12
7. References ....................................................12
7.1. Normative References ........................................12
7.2. Informative References ......................................12
8. Authors' Addresses ............................................13
Appendix A. NEP Advertisement Format .............................13
A.1. NEP Header ..................................................13
A.2. Topology Advertisement ......................................14
A.3. Subnet Advertisements .......................................14
A.3.1. Mask-Based Subnet Advertisements ..........................15
A.3.2. Prefix-Based Subnet Advertisements ........................15
A.4. Echo Mechanism ..............................................16
A.4.1. Echo Messages .............................................16
A.4.2. Delay Calculated Message ..................................16
A.5. Hello Messages ..............................................16
A.6. Router Left Message .........................................17
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7. References
8. Authors' Addresses
Khaled Omar Ibrahim Omar
The Road
6th of October City, Giza
Egypt
Phone: +2 01003620284
E-mail: eng.khaled.omar@hotmail.com
National ID No.: 28611262102992
Luis Camara
Portugal
E-mail: luis.camara@live.com.pt
