Network Working Group Internet Draft C. Proust Document: draft-proust-flow-routing-01.txt France Telecom Expires: January 2005 August 2004 An approach for routing at flow level draft-proust-flow-routing-01.txt Status of this Memo This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026 [RFC2026]. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt Abstract This specification designs an architecture that aims at load balancing flows along multiple routes according to a measure of their average traffic loads. This architecture supports such a service due to the operation in a closed loop of an enhanced routing control plane with an enhanced forwarding plane. Basically, this routing paradigm allows a second dynamic metric called load to be taken into account when calculating new routes and when forwarding the flows along the routes. Proust Expires
