The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) Version 3 for IPv4 and IPv6' (draft-ietf-rtgwg-vrrp-rfc5798bis-18.txt) as Proposed Standard
This document is the product of the Routing Area Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Jim Guichard, Andrew Alston and John Scudder. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-rtgwg-vrrp-rfc5798bis/ Technical Summary This document defines version 3 of the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) for IPv4 and IPv6. It is based on VRRP (version 2) for IPv4 that is defined in RFC 3768 and in "Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol for IPv6", and obsoletes the prevision specification of this version documented in RFC 5798. VRRP specifies an election protocol that dynamically assigns responsibility for a Virtual Router to one of the VRRP Routers on a LAN. The VRRP Router controlling the IPv4 or IPv6 address(es) associated with a Virtual Router is called the Active Router, and it forwards packets sent to these IPv4 or IPv6 addresses. Active Routers are configured with virtual IPv4 or IPv6 addresses, and Backup Routers infer the address family of the virtual addresses being advertised based on the IP protocol version. Within a VRRP Router, the Virtual Routers in each of the IPv4 and IPv6 address families are independent of one another and always treated as separate Virtual Router instances. The election process provides dynamic failover in the forwarding responsibility should the Active Router become unavailable. For IPv4, the advantage gained from using VRRP is a higher-availability default path without requiring configuration of dynamic routing or router discovery protocols on every end-host. For IPv6, the advantage gained from using VRRP for IPv6 is a quicker switchover to Backup Routers than can be obtained with standard IPv6 Neighbor Discovery mechanisms. The VRRP terminology has been updated to conform to inclusive language guidelines for IETF technologies. The IETF has designated National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) "Guidance for NIST Staff on Using Inclusive Language in Documentary Standards" for its inclusive language guidelines. Working Group Summary Consensus for publication reached and no major controversy. Personnel The Document Shepherd for this document is Yingzhen Qu. The Responsible Area Director is Jim Guichard. _______________________________________________ rtgwg mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/rtgwg
