I-D ACTION:draft-xu-softwire-4over6multicast-00.txt

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	Title		: IPv4 over IPv6 multicast
	Author(s)	: M. Xu, et al.
	Filename	: draft-xu-softwire-4over6multicast-00.txt
	Pages		: 10
	Date		: 2006-9-13

   The 4over6 mechanism is a mechanism to interconnect IPv4 networks
   over IPv6 backbones and provide IPv4-to-IPv6 transparent routing.
   The 4over6 unicast has been described in
   draft-wu-softwire-mesh-framework-00.txt.

   This memo provides the 4over6 multicast mechanism.  We use BGP for
   discovering and maintaining the membership among all the Provider
   Edges (PE), and use IPv6 and IPv4 PIM-SM to construct the
   distribution tree.  In the IPv6 backbone, static PIM-SSM trees are
   initially constructed for every PE.  All the multicast traffic from
   the same PE are forwarded through only one PIM-SSM tree to avoid P
   routers maintaining too much state information.  The process of
   encapsulation and decapsulation is the same as 4over6 unicast.

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