I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-magma-mrdisc-02.txt

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	Title		: Multicast Router Discovery
	Author(s)	: B. Haberman, J. Martin
	Filename	: draft-ietf-magma-mrdisc-02.txt
	Pages		: 17
	Date		: 2004-9-15

The concept of IGMP snooping requires the ability to identify the
location of multicast routers.  Since snooping is not standardized,
there are many mechanisms in use to identify the multicast routers.
However, this can lead to interoperability issues between multicast
routers and snooping switches from different vendors.

This document introduces a general mechanism that allows for the
discovery of multicast routers.  This new mechanism, Multicast
Router Discovery (MRD), introduces a standardized means of
identifying multicast routers without a dependency on particular
multicast routing protocols.

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