ipv6, ospf
Christoph
I am actually a member of a system concept working group of an
Internetworking project. The intention of this internetwork system
is to support, in an OSI based environment, a number of applications
over a variety of subnetworks. In addition to these multimedia and
multi-subnetwork components the internetwork is further characterized
by dynamic routing features.
The application profiles provide functions equivalent to the layer
5-7 of the OSI reference model. These application profiles make use
of an end-to-end connection oriented transport service provided through
the use of the OSI TP4 (ISO IS 8073) over CLNP (ISO IS 8473) over all
subnetworks.
The subnetwork independant network routing functions reside on
designated intermediate systems which route CLNP packets dynamically.
These intermediate systems make use of routing information exchange
protocols (ISO 9542 & ISO 10589).
In order to manage this project and the different participating
organizations the INTERNET (E-mail, ftp) was used as an infrastructure-
network.
Recently I became aware of a new version of the IP (version 6) and
new routing protocols (OSPF, MOSPF). At the moment I am only in the
position to get RFCs. On the other hand I am very interested in
- the discussion in the background,
- the implementation status (and the interoperability with the actual
IP version),
- the intention of the INTERNET world in terms of a potential
interoperability with OSI connectionless network protocol and
routing information exchange protocols,
- the intention of the INTERNET community to influence the standardization
- and so on.
Every information available is appreciated.
I am not quite sure if you are the right group for my question. If not
I would like to ask you if you can provide me with another address
to which I can send my questions.
Best regards and thanks in advance,
Christoph Prasse
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Dale R. Worley
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intolerant of those who differ)
In article <941129150...@ekoselsv.ffm.fgan.de> pra...@ekoselsv.ffm.fgan.de (Christoph) writes:
In order to manage this project and the different participating
organizations the INTERNET (E-mail, ftp) was used as an infrastructure-
network.
That is, you have used a fully functioning and world-wide network that
has been in operation for 10+ years to design a network that people
have been talking about for 10+ years.
Recently I became aware of a new version of the IP (version 6) and
new routing protocols (OSPF, MOSPF). At the moment I am only in the
position to get RFCs. On the other hand I am very interested in
- the discussion in the background,
You may want to look at comp.protocols.tcp-ip.
- the implementation status (and the interoperability with the actual
IP version),
IP version 6 is still on the drawing board. Preliminary
implementations and the interoperability plan are due out in late
1994. Commercial products are expected in late 1995. (Am I correct
in this?)
- the intention of the INTERNET world in terms of a potential
interoperability with OSI connectionless network protocol and
routing information exchange protocols,
The Internet has achieved annual growth of approximately 100% by
completely ignoring the OSI effort. Both of these facts are expected
to continue in the future. Eventually, everybody of significance will
be using the Internet and the OSI system will become a historical
curiousity.
Since the OSI effort has produced a network inferior in number of
hosts (excepting perhaps Minitel terminals), number of users, growth
rate, ease of use, and geographic coverage, it isn't clear that there
is any useful information that the Internet world can extract from the
OSI effort.
- the intention of the INTERNET community to influence the standardization
The Internet protocols are standardized by the IETF in documents
called RFC's. If the ISO, ANSI, or any other anointed standards body
wishes to recognize that RFC's are standards, that is good for the
standards body in question, but not particularly interesting for the
IETF. Indeed, I believe that ANSI (the U.S. standards body) has
recently decided that IETF standards will be blessed as official
standards.
Dale