RFC 5320

"The Subnetwork Encapsulation and Adaptation Layer (SEAL)", February 2010

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5320.txt
This document is also available in this non-normative format: PDF.

Status:

EXPERIMENTAL

Author:

F. Templin, Ed.

Stream:

INDEPENDENT

Please refer here for any errata for this document. To submit a new errata report, go to the main errata page.

Abstract

For the purpose of this document, subnetworks are defined as virtual topologies that span connected network regions bounded by encapsulating border nodes. These virtual topologies may span multiple IP and/or sub-IP layer forwarding hops, and can introduce failure modes due to packet duplication and/or links with diverse Maximum Transmission Units (MTUs). This document specifies a Subnetwork Encapsulation and Adaptation Layer (SEAL) that accommodates such virtual topologies over diverse underlying link technologies. This document defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.