Prioritized Treatment of Specific OSPF Version 2 Packets and Congestion Avoidance
RFC 4222
Approval announcement
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Subject: Protocol Action: 'Prioritized Treatment of Specific
OSPF Version 2 Packets and Congestion Avoidance' to BCP
The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Prioritized Treatment of Specific OSPF Version 2 Packets and
Congestion Avoidance '
<draft-ietf-ospf-scalability-10.txt> as a BCP
This document is the product of the Open Shortest Path First IGP Working
Group.
The IESG contact persons are Bill Fenner and Ross Callon.
A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ospf-scalability-10.txt
Technical Summary
This document recommends methods that are intended to improve the
scalability and stability of large networks using OSPF (Open Shortest
Path First) protocol. The methods include processing OSPF Hellos and
LSA (Link State Advertisement) Acknowledgments at a higher priority
compared to other OSPF packets, and other congestion avoidance
procedures.
Working Group Summary
The document has been extensively reviewed by the WG and modified to
accomodate provided comments. There was a WG consensus on this document.
Protocol Quality
The specification has been reviewed for the IESG by Bill Fenner and Alex
Zinin.