Router Discovery (rdisc)




Charter



Status: Concluded August, 1991 







Chair(s):







 Steve Deering 







Description of Working Group:



The Router Discovery Working Group is chartered to adopt or develop a



protocol that Internet hosts may use to dynamically discover the



addresses of operational neighboring gateways.  The group is expected



to propose its chosen protocol as a standard for gateway discovery in



the Internet.







The work of this group is distinguished from that of the Host



Configuration Working Group in that this group is concerned with the



dynamic tracking of router availability by hosts rather than the



initialization of various pieces of host state (which might include



router addresses) at host-startup time.







Request for Comments:

  • RFC1256 ICMP Router Discovery Messages (Proposed Standard)