Protocol Action: IANA Guidelines for IPv4 Multicast Address Allocation to BCP
The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> Tue, 31 July 2001 15:05 UTC
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Subject: Protocol Action: IANA Guidelines for IPv4 Multicast Address Allocation to BCP
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The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'IANA Guidelines for IPv4 Multicast Address Allocation' <draft-ietf-mboned-iana-ipv4-mcast-guidelines-04.txt> as a BCP. This document is the product of the MBONE Deployment Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Bert Wijnen and Randy Bush. Technical Summary This memo expands on section 4.4.2 of RFC 2780 and attempts to codify existing IANA practice used in the assignment IPv4 multicast addresses. Due to the relatively small size of the IPv4 multicast addresses space, further IANA allocation of IPv4 multicast address space is not recommended. Specifically, the IANA should only assign addresses in those cases where the dynamic selection (SDP/SAP), GLOP, SSM or Administratively Scoped address spaces cannot be used. Working Group Summary No issues were raised in working group last call. Protocol Quality The document was reviewed for the IESG by Randy Bush.