{"draft":"draft-ietf-babel-applicability-10","doc_id":"RFC8965","title":"Applicability of the Babel Routing Protocol","authors":["J. Chroboczek"],"format":["HTML","TEXT","PDF","XML"],"page_count":"10","pub_status":"INFORMATIONAL","status":"INFORMATIONAL","source":"Babel routing protocol","abstract":"Babel is a routing protocol based on the distance-vector algorithm\r\naugmented with mechanisms for loop avoidance and starvation\r\navoidance. This document describes a number of niches where Babel has\r\nbeen found to be useful and that are arguably not adequately served\r\nby more mature protocols.","pub_date":"January 2021","keywords":["distance-vector","loop","starvation","Bellman-Ford","routing","routing protocol","wireless","mesh network","IGP"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC8965","errata_url":null}