Open Shortest Path First IGP (ospf)
In addition to this official charter maintained by the IETF Secretariat, there is additional information about this working group on the Web at:
Additional OSPF Web Page
Last Modified: 2009-04-02
Additional information is available at tools.ietf.org/wg/ospf
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Description of Working Group:
The OSPF Working develops and documents extensions and bug fixes to theOSPF protocol, as well as documenting OSPF usage scenarios.
The specific protocol work items area listed in the Goals and
Milestones section below. Additional work items will require
rechartering.
Goals and Milestones:
| Done | Gather operational experience with the OSPF protocol and submit the document as an Informational RFC. | |
| Done | Develop multiple implementations, and test against each other. | |
| Done | Design the routing protocol, and write its specification. | |
| 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 | Submit OSPF for IPv6 to IESG for consideration as a Standard. | |
| Done | Update the OSPF NSSA option specified in RFC 1587 and submit to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard | |
| Done | Develop Traffic Engineering extensions for OSPFv2 and submit it to the IESG as a Proposed Standard | |
| Done | Submit to IESG a document which updates RFC 1793 allowing detection of demand circuit neighbors whose OSPF process has exited. | |
| Done | Submit to IESG a BCP advocating that OSPF LSA refreshes be spread out over time | |
| Done | Develop a hitless restart mechanism for OSPF and submit it to the IESG as a Proposed Standard. | |
| Done | Document Alternative ABR implementations and submit ti IESG as an Informational RFC | |
| Done | Extend the hitless restart mechanism to OSPFv3 and submit it to the IESG as a Proposed Standard | |
| Done | Submit to IESG a BCP advocating that OSPF Hellos be given preference over other OSPF control traffic. | |
| Done | Update OSPFv2 MIB and submit to IESG as a Standard, replacing RFC 1850 | |
| Done | Specify IPSEC usage with OSPFv3 and submit to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard | |
| Done | Extend OSPF Demand Circuits to detect inactive neighbors and submit to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard | |
| Done | Provide mechanisms to prevent looping in RFC 2547 OSPF networks and submit to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard | |
| Done | Develop OSPFv2 Multiple Topology Routing (MTR) specification and submit to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard | |
| Done | Develop OSPF Capabilities Advertisement specification and submit to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard | |
| Done | Document IANA Considerations for OSPFv2 and OSPFv3 for consideration as a BCP | |
| Mar 2008 | Develop OSPF for IPv6 MIB and submit to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard | |
| Mar 2008 | Reissue RFC 2370 with corrections and clarifications and submit to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard | |
| Mar 2008 | Reissue RFC 2740 with corrections and clarifications and submit to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard | |
| Mar 2008 | Develop mechanisms for support of multi-area adjacencies on a single link and submit to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard | |
| Mar 2008 | Advance Link Local Signaling (LLS) from experimental status and submit to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard | |
| Jul 2008 | Develop Traffic Engineering extensions for OSPFv3 and submit it to the IESG as a Proposed Standard | |
| Jul 2008 | Develop multiple instance OSPFv3 protocol mechanisms to support multiple address families and topologies | |
| Jul 2008 | Develop multiple OSPFv3 protocol alternatives to reduce flooding overhead and adjacencies in a MANET environment and submit to the IESG as experimental RFCs | |
| Jul 2008 | Develop a OSPFv2 Multiple Topology Routing (MTR) MIB specification and submit to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard | |
| Nov 2008 | Develop stronger authentication mechanisms for OSPFv2 and submit to IESG as a Proposed Standard | |
| Mar 2009 | Develop a single instance OSPFv3 Multiple Topology Routing (MTR) specification and submit to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard |
Internet-Drafts:
Management Information Base for OSPFv3 (199421 bytes)OSPF Link-local Signaling (22559 bytes)
Support of address families in OSPFv3 (30013 bytes)
Advertising a Router's Local Addresses in OSPF TE Extensions (16190 bytes)
OSPF Version 2 MIB for Multi-Topology (MT) Routing (56197 bytes)
Extensions to OSPF to Support Mobile Ad Hoc Networking (90377 bytes)
MANET Extension of OSPF using CDS Flooding (167786 bytes)
Dynamic Hostname Exchange Mechanism for OSPF (18503 bytes)
OSPF Transport Instance Extensions (18404 bytes)
OSPF Multi-Instance Extensions (12583 bytes)
Request For Comments:
OSPF specification (RFC 1131) (268 bytes) obsoleted by RFC 1247OSPF Version 2 (RFC 1247) (433332 bytes) obsoletes RFC 1131/ obsoleted by RFC 1583
OSPF Version 2 Management Information Base (RFC 1248) (74772 bytes) obsoleted by RFC 1252,RFC 1349
OSPF Protocol Analysis (RFC 1245) (26819 bytes)
Experience with the OSPF Protocol (RFC 1246) (70441 bytes)
OSPF Version 2 Management Information Base (RFC 1252) (74896 bytes) obsoletes RFC 1248/ obsoleted by RFC 1253
OSPF Version 2 Management Information Base (RFC 1253) (74878 bytes) obsoletes RFC 1252/ obsoleted by RFC 1850
OSPF Version 2 (RFC 1583) (523636 bytes) obsoletes RFC 1247/ obsoleted by RFC 2178
The OSPF NSSA Option (RFC 1587) (37412 bytes) obsoleted by RFC 3101
Guidelines for Running OSPF Over Frame Relay Networks (RFC 1586) (14968 bytes)
OSPF Database Overflow (RFC 1765) (21613 bytes)
Extending OSPF to Support Demand Circuits (RFC 1793) (78728 bytes) updated by RFC 3883
OSPF Version 2 Management Information Base (RFC 1850) (140255 bytes) obsoletes RFC 1253/ obsoleted by RFC 4750
IP Forwarding Table MIB (RFC 2096) (35930 bytes) obsoletes RFC 1354/ obsoleted by RFC 4292
OSPF Version 2 (RFC 2178) (495874 bytes) obsoletes RFC 1583/ obsoleted by RFC 2328
OSPF Standardization Report (RFC 2329) (15130 bytes)
OSPF Version 2 (RFC 2328) (524985 bytes) obsoletes RFC 2178
The OSPF Opaque LSA Option (RFC 2370) (33789 bytes) obsoleted by RFC 5250/ updated by RFC 3630
OSPF for IPv6 (RFC 2740) (189810 bytes) obsoleted by RFC 5340
OSPF over ATM and Proxy PAR (RFC 2844) (32146 bytes)
OSPF Stub Router Advertisement (RFC 3137) (8140 bytes)
The OSPF Not-So-Stubby Area (NSSA) Option (RFC 3101) (76243 bytes) obsoletes RFC 1587
Alternative Implementations of OSPF Area Border Routers (RFC 3509) (24326 bytes)
Traffic Engineering (TE) Extensions to OSPF Version 2 (RFC 3630) (27717 bytes) updates RFC 2370/ updated by RFC 4203
Graceful OSPF Restart (RFC 3623) (38757 bytes)
Detecting Inactive Neighbors over OSPF Demand Circuits (RFC 3883) (13100 bytes) updates RFC 1793
OSPF Refresh and Flooding Reduction in Stable Topologies (RFC 4136) (8534 bytes)
Graceful OSPF Restart Implementation Report (RFC 4167) (11780 bytes)
Prioritized Treatment of Specific OSPF Version 2 Packets and Congestion Avoidance (RFC 4222) (34132 bytes)
Authentication/Confidentiality for OSPFv3 (RFC 4552) (31540 bytes)
Using a Link State Advertisement (LSA) Options Bit to Prevent Looping in BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) (RFC 4576) (15149 bytes)
OSPF Version 2 Management Information Base (RFC 4750) (222459 bytes) obsoletes RFC 1850
Multi-Topology (MT) Routing in OSPF (RFC 4915) (43115 bytes)
IANA Considerations for OSPF (RFC 4940) (27595 bytes)
Extensions to OSPF for Advertising Optional Router Capabilities (RFC 4970) (26416 bytes)
OSPF Multi-Area Adjacency (RFC 5185) (18698 bytes)
OSPFv3 Graceful Restart (RFC 5187) (14860 bytes)
The OSPF Opaque LSA Option (RFC 5250) (37657 bytes) obsoletes RFC 2370
OSPF for IPv6 (RFC 5340) (225664 bytes) obsoletes RFC 2740
Traffic Engineering Extensions to OSPF version 3 (RFC 5329) (25864 bytes)
OSPF Multipoint Relay (MPR) Extension for Ad Hoc Networks (RFC 5449) (67216 bytes)
