Embedding the Rendezvous Point (RP) Address in an IPv6 Multicast Address
RFC 3956
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Subject: Protocol Action: 'Embedding the Rendezvous Point (RP)
Address in an IPv6 Multicast Address' to Proposed Standard
The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Embedding the Rendezvous Point (RP) Address in an IPv6 Multicast
Address '
<draft-ietf-mboned-embeddedrp-08.txt> as a Proposed Standard
This document is the product of the MBONE Deployment Working Group.
The IESG contact persons are David Kessens and Dan Romascanu.
A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mboned-embeddedrp-08.txt
Technical Summary
This memo defines an address allocation policy in which the address
of the Rendezvous Point (RP) is encoded in an IPv6 multicast group
address. For Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM),
this can be seen as a specification of a group-to-RP mapping
mechanism. This allows an easy deployment of scalable inter-domain
multicast, and simplifies the intra-domain multicast configuration as
well. This memo updates the addressing format presented in RFC 3306.
Working Group Summary
This document is a product of the mboned working group.
Protocol Quality
David Kessens reviewed this document for the IESG.