The Router Discovery Working Group is chartered to adopt or develop a protocol that Internet hosts may use to dynamically discover the addresses of operational neighboring gateways. The group is expected to propose its chosen protocol as a standard for gateway discovery in the Internet. The work of this group is distinguished from that of the Host Configuration Working Group in that this group is concerned with the dynamic tracking of router availability by hosts rather than the initialization of various pieces of host state (which might include router addresses) at host-startup time.