Considerations For Maintaining Protocols Using Grease and Variability
draft-edm-protocol-greasing-06
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| Authors | Lucas Pardue , Tommy Pauly , Dave Thaler | ||
| Last updated | 2026-01-12 (Latest revision 2025-10-19) | ||
| Replaced by | draft-iab-protocol-greasing | ||
| RFC stream | Internet Architecture Board (IAB) | ||
| Intended RFC status | Informational | ||
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Abstract
Active use and maintenance of network protocols is an important way to ensure that protocols remain interoperable and extensible over time. Techniques such as intentionally exercising extension points with non-meaningful values (referred to as "grease") or adding variability to how protocol elements are used help generate this active use. Grease and variability are used across various protocols developed by the IETF. This document discusses considerations when designing and deploying grease and variability mechanisms, and provides advice for making them as effective as possible.
Authors
Lucas Pardue
Tommy Pauly
Dave Thaler
(Note: The e-mail addresses provided for the authors of this Internet-Draft may no longer be valid.)