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This document defines a new flag, the SNAC Router flag, in the Router Advertisement message that can be used to distinguish configuration information sent by SNAC routers from information sent by infrastructure routers. This flag is used only by SNAC routers and is ignored by all other devices. |
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This document specifies a mechanism for Penultimate Hop Popping (PHP) in the Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) architecture. PHP enables the removal of the BIER header by the penultimate router, thereby reducing the processing burden on the final router in the delivery path. This extension to BIER enhances operational efficiency by optimizing packet forwarding in scenarios where the final hop's capabilities or requirements necessitate such handling. The document details the necessary extensions to the BIER encapsulation and forwarding processes to support PHP, providing guidance for implementation and deployment within BIER-enabled networks. |
| | Use Cases for In-Network Computing |
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| | draft-irtf-coinrg-use-cases-07.txt |
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04/12/2024 |
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Ike Kunze, Klaus Wehrle, Dirk Trossen, Marie-Jose Montpetit, Xavier de Foy, David Griffin, Miguel Rio |
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Computing in the Network Research Group (coinrg) |
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Computing in the Network (COIN) comes with the prospect of deploying processing functionality on networking devices, such as switches and network interface cards. While such functionality can be beneficial, it has to be carefully placed into the context of the general Internet communication and it needs to be clearly identified where and how those benefits apply. This document presents some use cases to demonstrate how a number of salient COIN-related applications can benefit from COIN. Furthermore, to guide research on COIN, it identifies essential research questions and outlines desirable capabilities that COIN systems addressing the use cases may need to support. Finally, the document provides a preliminary categorization of the described research questions to source future work in this domain. It is a product of the Computing in the Network Research Group (COINRG). It is not an IETF product and it is not a standard. |