[rtgwg] KIRA – Scalable zero-touch routing – New Version Notification for draft-bless-rtgwg-kira-04.txt

"Bless, Roland (TM)" <roland.bless@kit.edu> Fri, 17 October 2025 13:54 UTC

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Subject: [rtgwg] KIRA – Scalable zero-touch routing – New Version Notification for draft-bless-rtgwg-kira-04.txt
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Dear RTGWG members,

a new I-D version of the scalable zero-touch routing protocol
KIRA is available. Please have a look and give feedback!
I'll also be in Montréal at IETF124 to discuss.

This ID-based routing protocol is meant to be used
to establish control plane network connectivity between networked devices.
There is also running code (Rust on Linux).

Regards,
  Roland

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Betreff: 	New Version Notification for draft-bless-rtgwg-kira-04.txt
Datum: 	Fri, 17 Oct 2025 06:43:39 -0700
Von: 	internet-drafts@ietf.org
An: 	Roland Bless <roland.bless@kit.edu>



A new version of Internet-Draft draft-bless-rtgwg-kira-04.txt has been
successfully submitted by Roland Bless and posted to the
IETF repository.

Name: draft-bless-rtgwg-kira
Revision: 04
Title: Kademlia-directed ID-based Routing Architecture (KIRA)
Date: 2025-10-17
Group: Individual Submission
Pages: 58
URL: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-bless-rtgwg-kira-04.txt
Status: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bless-rtgwg-kira/
HTML: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-bless-rtgwg-kira-04.html
HTMLized: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-bless-rtgwg-kira
Diff: https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url2=draft-bless-rtgwg-kira-04

Abstract:

This document describes the Kademlia-directed ID-based Routing
Architecture KIRA. KIRA is a scalable zero-touch distributed routing
solution that is tailored to control planes. It prioritizes scalable
and resilient connectivity over route efficiency (stretched paths are
acceptable vs. routing protocol overhead). KIRA's self-assigned
topological independent IDs can be embedded into IPv6 addresses.
Combined with further self-organization mechanisms from Kademlia,
KIRA achieves a zero-touch solution that provides scalable IPv6
connectivity without requiring any manual configuration. For
example, it can connect hundreds of thousands of routers and devices
in a single network without requiring any form of hierarchy (like
areas). It works well in various topologies and is loop-free even
during convergence. This self-contained solution, and especially the
independence from any manual configuration, make it suitable as
resilient base for all management and control tasks, allowing to
recover from the most complex failure scenarios. The architecture
consists of the ID-based network layer routing protocol R²/Kad in its
Routing Tier (using source routing) and a PathID-based Forwarding
Tier (using PathIDs as labels for paths). KIRA’s tightly integrated
add-on services (e.g., name resolution as well as fast and efficient
topology discovery) provide a perfect basis for autonomic network
management solutions.



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