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Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-v6ops-rfc3330-for-ipv6-01.txt



Gert,
you were probably looking at the -00 version. -01 version already had that fix.

Marc.

Le 07-08-02 à 20:40, Gert Doering a écrit :

Hi,

I'm coming a bit late to this (sorry), but something just caught my
eye:

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 12:51:28PM -0500, Marc Blanchet wrote:
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2.10 is somewhat incorrect on Multicast:

   ff00::/8 are multicast addresses [RFC4291].  They have a 4 bits
scope
   in the address field.  Only addresses having the 'E' value in the
   scope field are of global scope, all other values are local or
reserved. Therefore, only ffXe:: routes may be advertised outside a
   site, where X may be any value.

I'm wondering about the word "advertised" - I've never hear anyone
use that word in the context of multicast addresses. They are not carried
in BGP (which is the typical "advertising" of routing data), and PIM
isn't exactly "advertising routes".

So maybe the last sentence should be:

Therefore, only ffXe:: multicast groups and the accompanying routing
   protocol state may appear outside a site, where X may be any value.

or something like this.

Gert Doering
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