Re: draft on IPv6 multicast issues

[Bill Nickless <nickless@mcs.anl.gov>]

At 04:25 PM 10/7/2002 +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've just sent a 7-page draft on IPv6 Multicast Deployment Issues to
> internet-drafts@ietf.org.
Please also see

ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mboned-iesg-gap-analysis-00.txt

Here's the abstract:

    An overview of IP multicast as deployed in the Internet today,
    from the perspective of the MBONED working group. Existing
    infrastructure is examined critically. Suggestions for possible
    improvement of the overall architecture are presented for the IESG.

IPv6 multicast is included in this analysis.

One of the concepts presented is that IGMP and MLD snooping might be 
discouraged, due to the complexity it requires on the part of the Ethernet 
switches.  (Namely, interpretation of IPv4 and IPv6 datagrama.)

Another concept presented is to change the many-to-one static mapping 
between IPv[46] multicast group addresses and IEEE MAC addresses, in favor 
of a dynamic mapping much like IPv4 ARP or IPv6 Neighbor Discovery.


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