Related IETF Meeting Minutes from the 58th IETF
Meeting
in Minneapolis, Minnesota USA: 

"Jun-ihiro itojun Hagino from the OpenBSD community
presented the common  
address redundancy protocol (CARP). Points of contact
for the effort  
include mcbride@openbsd.org and deraadt@openbsd.org.
The goal of the CARP  
effort is to have a protocol in this problem space
that is completely  
patent-free. The CARP community has evaluated VRRP and
believes both VRRP  
and CARP do not infringe on any HSRP claims. Bob
Hinden questioned the  
validity of this analysis and whether or not Cisco
would agree with that  
analysis. The primary technical differences between
CARP and VRRP were  
summarized. The discussion evolved back to the topic
of patents. Scott  
Bradner expressed a concern about the CARP community
not having 
discussed  their analysis with Cisco. Bob Hinden
questioned the 
mechanics of the  reliability mechanism used by CARP.
The conclusion of the 
discussion was  that an internet-draft needs to be
prepared in order to 
seriously consider  CARP in the context of this
working group."

Source: http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/03nov/193.htm

-jbl

--- Li Mingyu <limingyu@huawei-3com.com> wrote:

> I wonder wheather there are some documents for CARP
> standard to learn the
> detail of CARP.  Or I have to know it only from the
> code:(
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tech-net-owner@NetBSD.org 
> > [mailto:tech-net-owner@NetBSD.org] On Behalf Of
> Justin Lundy
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 5:18 AM
> > To: tech-net@netbsd.org; m.hertrick@neovera.com
> > Subject: Re: CARP
> > 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > This is in reference to the post:
> > 
> >
>
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-net/2003/11/10/0005.html
> > 
> > What is the official status on CARP support in
> NetBSD?
> > 
> > 
> > It looks like Max Laier is close to merging CARP
> into
> > FreeBSD-current:
> > 
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/CARP/
> > 
> > Regards,
> > -Justin
> > 
> > 
> > 		
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