Open Shortest Path First IGP (ospf) Charter
NOTE: This charter is accurate as of the 33rd IETF Meeting in Stockholm. It
may now be out-of-date. (Consider this a "snapshot" of the working
group from that meeting.) Up-to-date charters for all active working
groups can be found elsewhere in this Web server.
Chair(s)
Routing Area Director(s):
- Joel Halpern <jhalpern@newbridge.com>
Mailing List Information
- General Discussion:ospf@gated.cornell.edu
- To Subscribe: ospf-request@gated.cornell.edu
- Archive:
Description of Working Group
The OSPF Working Group will develop and field-test an SPF-based
Internal Gateway Protocol. The specification will be published and
written in such a way so as to encourage multiple vendor
implementations.
Goals and Milestones
- Done
- Design the routing protocol, and write its specification.
- Done
- Develop multiple implementations, and test against each other.
- Done
- Obtain performance data for the protocol.
- Done
- Make changes to the specification (if necessary) and publish the protocol as a Draft Standard RFC.
- Done
- Gather operational experience with the OSPF protocol and submit the document as an Informational RFC.
Current Internet-Drafts
Request for Comments