[Babel-users] Babel - IS-IS comparison Internet Draft

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

Hi,

As some of you are aware, the IETF Homenet working group [1] is currently
trying to decide on a routing protocol for Homenet routers.  The current
contenders are Matthieu's source-specific branch of Babel and an
autoconfiguring, source-specific variant of IS-IS.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7368

It would be good if there were a source-specific version of OSPF to
compare against, but unfortunately the likelihood of having a working
implementation before the Dallas IETF in March is pretty low.

Margaret Wasserman, Christian Hopps and myself have done some work to
document the differences between Babel and the source-specific variant of
IS-IS [2].  The document is far from perfect, but I think it can serve as
a useful basis for dicussion.

[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mrw-homenet-rtg-comparison

Discussion of this document will happen on the Homenet mailing list [3] in
the next days.  Please do not send your comments before the document is
officially announced there (which should happen today or tomorrow).

[3] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet

I'll be sending my own comments there in the next days.

Happy reading,

-- Juliusz