[rfc-dist] RFC 4838 on Delay-Tolerant Networking Architecture

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        RFC 4838

        Title:      Delay-Tolerant Networking Architecture 
        Author:     V. Cerf, S. Burleigh,
                    A. Hooke, L. Torgerson,
                    R. Durst, K. Scott,
                    K. Fall, H. Weiss
        Status:     Informational
        Date:       April 2007
        Mailbox:    vint at google.com, 
                    Scott.Burleigh at jpl.nasa.gov, 
                    Adrian.Hooke at jpl.nasa.gov,  ltorgerson at jpl.nasa.gov, 
                    durst at mitre.org,  kscott at mitre.org, 
                    kfall at intel.com,  howard.weiss at sparta.com
        Pages:      35
        Characters: 89265
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-irtf-dtnrg-arch-08.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4838.txt

This document describes an architecture for delay-tolerant and
disruption-tolerant networks, and is an evolution of the architecture
originally designed for the Interplanetary Internet, a communication
system envisioned to provide Internet-like services across
interplanetary distances in support of deep space exploration.  This
document describes an architecture that addresses a variety of
problems with internetworks having operational and performance
characteristics that make conventional (Internet-like) networking
approaches either unworkable or impractical.  We define a message-
oriented overlay that exists above the transport (or other) layers of
the networks it interconnects.  The document presents a motivation
for the architecture, an architectural overview, review of state
management required for its operation, and a discussion of
application design issues.  This document represents the consensus of
the IRTF DTN research group and has been widely reviewed by that group.  
This memo provides information for the Internet community.

This document is a product of the IRTF.


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