The intro suggests that it’s for “unstable networks.” The protocol is required by the HomeNet project [0, 1], so residential networking (possibly including IoT)

The intro suggests that it’s for “unstable networks.” The protocol is required by the HomeNet project [0, 1], so residential networking (possibly including IoT) seems to be one application. [0]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/homenet/about/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/homenet/about/ [1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-homenet-babel-profile/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-homenet-babel-pr...