Evaluation: draft-ietf-vrrp-spec-v2-09.txt to Draft Standard

[IESG Secretary <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>]

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Evaluation for draft-ietf-vrrp-spec-v2-09.txt can be found at 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/cgi-bin/idtracker.cgi?command=view_id&dTag=3948&rfc_flag=0 

Last Call to expire on: 2003-10-24

        Please return the full line with your position.

                      Yes  No-Objection  Discuss  Abstain
Harald Alvestrand    [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Steve Bellovin       [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Randy Bush           [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Bill Fenner          [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Ned Freed            [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Ted Hardie           [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Russ Housley         [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Allison Mankin       [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Thomas Narten        [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Jon Peterson         [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Margaret Wasserman   [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Bert Wijnen          [   ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]
Alex Zinin           [ X ]     [   ]     [   ]     [   ]

2/3 (9) Yes or No-Objection opinions needed to pass.

DISCUSSES AND COMMENTS:
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From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
To: IETF-Announce:;
Cc: Internet Architecture Board <iab@iab.org>,
    RFC Editor <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org>, <vrrp@ietf.org>
Subject: Protocol Action: 'Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol' to Draft 
         Standard 

The IESG has approved following document:

- 'Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol '
   <draft-ietf-vrrp-spec-v2-09.txt> as a Draft Standard

This document is the product of the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol 
Working 
Group. 

The IESG contact persons are Alex Zinin and Bill Fenner.

Technical Summary
 
 VRRP specifies an election protocol that dynamically assigns
 responsibility for a virtual router to one of the VRRP routers on a
 LAN.  The VRRP router controlling the IP address(es) associated with
 a virtual router is called the Master, and forwards packets sent to
 these IP addresses.  The election process provides dynamic fail over
 in the forwarding responsibility should the Master become
 unavailable.  This allows any of the virtual router IP addresses on
 the LAN to be used as the default first hop router by end-hosts.  The
 advantage gained from using VRRP is a higher availability default
 path without requiring configuration of dynamic routing or router
 discovery protocols on every end-host.
 
Working Group Summary
 
 There was a consensus within the WG on this document
 
Protocol Quality
 
 The specification has been reviewed for the IESG by Alex Zinin and
 Bill Fenner. The protocol has been widely implemented and deployed.