A Method for Generating Link-Scoped IPv6 Multicast Addresses
RFC 4489
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Subject: Protocol Action: 'A Method for Generating Link Scoped
IPv6 Multicast Addresses' to Proposed Standard
The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'A Method for Generating Link Scoped IPv6 Multicast Addresses '
<draft-ietf-ipv6-link-scoped-mcast-10.txt> as a Proposed Standard
This document is the product of the IP Version 6 Working Group.
The IESG contact persons are Margaret Wasserman and Mark Townsley.
A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipv6-link-scoped-mcast-10.txt
Technical Summary
This document specifies an extension to the multicast addressing
architecture of the IPv6 protocol. The extension allows for the use
of Interface Identifiers (IIDs) to allocate multicast addresses.
When a link-local unicast address is configured at each interface
of a node, an IID is uniquely determined. After that, each node
can generate their unique multicast addresses automatically without
conflicts. Basically, this document proposes an alternative method
for creating link-local multicast addresses over a known method
like unicast-prefix-based IPv6 multicast addresses. It is preferred
to use this method for link-local scope rather than unicast-
prefix-based IPv6 multicast addresses. This memo update RFC3306.
Working Group Summary
This document was produced by the IPv6 WG.
Protocol Quality
This document was reviewed for the IESG by Margaret Wasserman.