[rfc-dist] RFC 7471 on OSPF Traffic Engineering (TE) Metric Extensions

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        RFC 7471

        Title:      OSPF Traffic Engineering (TE) Metric 
                    Extensions 
        Author:     S. Giacalone, D. Ward,
                    J. Drake, A. Atlas,
                    S. Previdi
        Status:     Standards Track
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       March 2015
        Mailbox:    spencer.giacalone at gmail.com, 
                    dward at cisco.com, 
                    jdrake at juniper.net,
                    akatlas at juniper.net, 
                    sprevidi at cisco.com
        Pages:      19
        Characters: 38803
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-ospf-te-metric-extensions-11.txt

        URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7471

In certain networks, such as, but not limited to, financial
information networks (e.g., stock market data providers), network
performance information (e.g., link propagation delay) is becoming
critical to data path selection.

This document describes common extensions to RFC 3630 "Traffic
Engineering (TE) Extensions to OSPF Version 2" and RFC 5329 "Traffic
Engineering Extensions to OSPF Version 3" to enable network
performance information to be distributed in a scalable fashion.  The
information distributed using OSPF TE Metric Extensions can then be
used to make path selection decisions based on network performance.

Note that this document only covers the mechanisms by which network
performance information is distributed.  The mechanisms for measuring
network performance information or using that information, once
distributed, are outside the scope of this document.

This document is a product of the Open Shortest Path First IGP Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard.

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