Group Tackles IP Routing Protocols for Embedded Networks

[Mitzs]

5/9/2008 -- The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has chartered a new working group to standardize IP routing protocols for embedded networks connecting devices with limited power, memory and processing resources.

The Routing Over Low-Power and Lossy Networks (ROLL) working group will define interoperable protocols that will let disparate networks be tied together and managed using IP routers rather than protocol translation gateways and proxies. The architectural framework will be based on IPv6, the new generation of Internet Protocols that is expected to dramatically expand the reach of IP networks and the types and numbers of devices connected to them.

The U.S. government has mandated that agencies make their backbones capable of handling IPv6 traffic by next month.

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