RFC 8966: The Babel Routing Protocol
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
Babel is a loop-avoiding, distance-vector routing protocol that is robust and efficient both in ordinary wired networks and in wireless mesh networks. This document describes the Babel routing protocol and obsoletes RFC 6126 and RFC 7557.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC8966
- Published
- January 2021
- Authors
- J. Chroboczek; D. Schinazi
- Status
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- rtg
- Pages
- 54
- Also known as
- —
Topics
Standards lineage
This document is one revision in a chain of 3 RFCs, each formally replacing the one before it.
- RFC 6126 (2011)
- RFC 7557 (2015)
- RFC 8966 (2021)
Related documents
Ranked automatically by shared keywords, IETF area and stream — not by editorial selection.
- RFC 8965Applicability of the Babel Routing ProtocolCurrent
January 2021
- RFC 8706Restart Signaling for IS-ISCurrent
February 2020
- RFC 8667IS-IS Extensions for Segment RoutingCurrent
December 2019
- RFC 8666OSPFv3 Extensions for Segment RoutingCurrent
December 2019
- RFC 8665OSPF Extensions for Segment RoutingCurrent
December 2019
- RFC 9339OSPF Reverse MetricCurrent
December 2022
- RFC 9355OSPF Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) Strict-ModeCurrent
February 2023
- RFC 8570IS-IS Traffic Engineering (TE) Metric ExtensionsCurrent
March 2019
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