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Link State Routing
charter-ietf-lsr-00-01

The information below is for an older proposed charter
Document Proposed charter Link State Routing WG (lsr) Snapshot
Title Link State Routing
Last updated 2018-01-24
State Draft Charter Rechartering
WG State Proposed
IESG Responsible AD Gunter Van de Velde
Charter edit AD Alia Atlas
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charter-ietf-lsr-00-01

The Link-State Routing (LSR) Working Group is chartered to document current protocol implementation practices and improvements, protocol usage scenarios, maintenance and extensions of link-state routing interior gateway protocols (IGPs) with a focus on IS-IS, OSPFv2, and OSPFv3. The LSR Working Group is formed by merging the isis and ospf WGs and will take on all their existing adopted work at the time of chartering.

IS-IS is an IGP specified and standardized by ISO through ISO 10589:2002 and additional RFC standards with
extensions to support IP that has been deployed in the Internet for decades. For the IS-IS protocol, LSR’s work is focused on IP routing, currently based on the agreement in RFC 3563 with ISO/JTC1/SC6. The LSR WG will interact with other standards bodies that have responsible for standardizing IS-IS.

OSPFv2 [RFC 2328 and extensions], is an IGP that has been deployed in the Internet for decades. OSPFv3 [RFC5340 and extensions] provides OSPF for IPv6 which can be delivered over IPv4 or IPv6 [RFC 7949].

The LSR Working Group will generally manage its specific work items by milestones agreed with the responsible Area Director.

The following topics are expected to be an initial focus:

Improving OSPF support for IPv6 and extensions using OSPFv3 LSA Extendibility.
Extensions needed for Segment Routing and associated architectural changes
YANG models for IS-IS, OSPFv2, and OSPFv3 and extensions
Extensions for source-destination routing [draft-ietf-rtgwg-dst-src-routing]
Potentially, extensions to better support specific network topologies such as ones commonly used in data centers.

The Link-State Routing (LSR) Working Group will coordinate with other working groups, such as RTGWG, SPRING, MPLS, TEAS, V6OPS, and 6MAN, to understand the need for extensions and to confirm that the planned work meets the needs. LSR can coordinate with CCAMP and BIER on their extensions to the LSR IGPs as useful. LSR may coordinate with other WGs as needed.