Protocol Action: Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) to Proposed Standard
The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> Fri, 28 January 2000 19:07 UTC
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Subject: Protocol Action: Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) to Proposed Standard
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The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)' <draft-meyer-gre-update-03.txt> as a Proposed Standard. This has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Thomas Narten and Erik Nordmark. Technical Summary This document specifies a protocol for encapsulation of an arbitrary network layer protocol over another arbitrary network layer protocol. This document takes the parts of RFC 1701 (GRE) that are actually in widespread use and removes those features that are not. Implementations of this document will interoperate with deployed GRE systems. Working Group Summary The document is not a WG product. During the extended last call, a number of comments were received, including objections to having extensions that moved beyond RFC 1701. All of those extensions were removed from this document. Some comments were received suggesting extensions to the base document. Those suggestions may be pursued in a followup document extending GRE, but were not incorporated in this document as they were not considered critical enough to justify a resultant non-interoperability with the installed base. Protocol Quality This specification was reviewed for the IESG by Randy Bush, Thomas Narten, and Erik Nordmark.