Nimrod was a DARPA-funded scalable routing architecture designed to:
Key features of Nimrod include:
Nimrod was developed within the Nimrod Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The working group is no longer active.
The following material is available.
| Date | Type | Size | Title/Description (Text version) |
| May 95 | ASCII | 86792 | "A New IP Routing and Addressing Architecture" |
| Jun 94 | Compressed Postscript |
116487 | "A Perspective on Nimrod Functionality" |
| Jul 94 | ASCII | 42409 | "IPng Technical Requirements Of the Nimrod Routing and Addressing Architecture" |
| May 95 | ASCII | 36029 | "Nimrod and IPng Technical Requirements" |
| May 95 | ASCII | 6984 | "Open Issues I (From Big-I)" |
| May 95 | ASCII | 10674 | "Nimrod Open Architectural Issues List" |
| May 95 | ASCII | 43864 | "Nimrod Software Architecture" |
| Jun 96 | ASCII | 57897 | draft-ietf-nimrod-routing-arch-01.txt "The Nimrod Routing Architecture" |
| Feb 96 | Postscript | 159572 | draft-ietf-nimrod-mobility-02.txt "Mobility Support for Nimrod : Requirements and Solution Approaches" |
| Feb 96 | Postscript | 189250 | draft-ietf-nimrod-multicast-02.txt "Multicast Support for Nimrod : Requirements and Solution Approaches" |
| Nov 96 | ASCII | 14667 | draft-ietf-nimrod-dns-02.txt "DNS Resource Records for Nimrod Routing Architecture" |
| Aug 97 | ASCII | 12914 | draft-ietf-nimrod-eid-02.txt "Endpoint Identifier Destination Option" |
| Jul 95 | ASCII | 7111 | draft-ietf-nimrod-iap-00.txt "Nimrod Inter-agent Protocol" |
| Jul 95 | ASCII | 19200 | draft-ietf-nimrod-rh1-00.txt "Nimrod Routing Header" |
| Jul 95 | ASCII | 5893 | draft-ietf-nimrod-ip6a-00.txt "IPv6 Address Allocation for Nimrod Locators" |
| Feb 96 | Postscript | 564835 | draft-ietf-nimrod-fun-pro-spec-00.txt "Nimrod Functionality and Protocol Specifications, Version 1" |
| Oct 96 | Postscript | 179284 | Nimrod Configuration Example |
| May 95 | ASCII | 9119 | Nimrod Definitions |
| Jan 95 | ASCII | 59383 | Nimrod Deployment Plan |
| Aug 96 | Gzip Tarball | 23352336 | nimrod.0.3.netbsd.tar.gz |
| Dec 94 | ASCII | 10486 | IETF 31 - Nimrod WG Agenda and Nimrod Components |
| Dec 94 | ASCII | 7057 | IETF 31 - Nimrod: Data Message Forwarding |
| Dec 94 | ASCII | IETF 31 - Nimrod Deployment | |
| Dec 94 | ASCII | 8634 | IETF 31 - Nimrod WG minutes |
| Apr 95 | troff | 6578 | IETF 32 - Nimrod WG Agenda and Overview |
| Apr 95 | ASCII | 9190 | IETF 32 - Infrastructure Example |
| Apr 95 | ASCII | 6828 | IETF 32 - Network Example |
| Apr 95 | Postscript | 9777 | IETF 32 - Network Figure |
| Apr 95 | ASCII | 13073 | IETF 32 - Nimrod Components |
| Apr 95 | ASCII | 3413 | IETF 32 - Nimrod Auto Configuration |
| Apr 95 | ASCII | 3356 | IETF 32 - Nimrod Bootstrapping |
| Apr 95 | ASCII | 5537 | IETF 32 - Nimrod WG Minutes |
| Jul 95 | ASCII | 6269 | IETF 33 - Nimrod WG Agenda and Overview |
| May 95 | ASCII | 4014 | Nimrod WG Email List |
| 93 | ASCII | 682590 | Nimrod WG Email Archive, Sep to Dec 1993 |
| 94 | ASCII | 789534 | Nimrod WG Email Archive, Jan to Jun 1994 |
| 94 | ASCII | 308140 | Nimrod WG Email Archive, Jul to Dec 1994 |
| 95 | ASCII | 415763 | Nimrod WG Email Archive, Jan to Jun 1995 |
| 95 | ASCII | 91409 | Nimrod WG Email Archive, Jul to Dec 1995 |
| 96 | ASCII | 9302 | Nimrod WG Email Archive, Jan to Jun 1996 |