Re: New draft on embedding the RP address in IPv6 multicast address

[Gert Doering <gert@space.net>]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 02:58:10PM -0400, Brian Haberman wrote:
> Mike O'Connor wrote:
> > Is there an underlying assumption that a given group has all of it's
> > sources in one PIM domain? 
> 
>       In a previous append, I pointed out that there is still an
> open issue with a sender being outside of the PIM domain that
> allocated the address.

Just an idea.  What about sending a PIM register from the sender's RP 
to the RP that belongs to the multicast address?  It would need another 
protocol change, of course.

gert
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