{
  "draft": "draft-ietf-babel-applicability-10",
  "doc_id": "RFC8965",
  "title": "Applicability of the Babel Routing Protocol",
  "authors": [
    "J. Chroboczek"
  ],
  "format": [
    "XML",
    "TEXT",
    "HTML",
    "PDF"
  ],
  "page_count": "10",
  "pub_status": "INFORMATIONAL",
  "status": "INFORMATIONAL",
  "source": "Babel routing protocol",
  "abstract": "Babel is a routing protocol based on the distance-vector algorithm augmented with mechanisms for loop avoidance and starvation avoidance.  This document describes a number of niches where Babel has been found to be useful and that are arguably not adequately served by 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
}