RFC 5757 on Multicast Mobility in Mobile IP Version 6 (MIPv6): Problem Statement and Brief Survey

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        RFC 5757

        Title:      Multicast Mobility in Mobile IP 
                    Version 6 (MIPv6): Problem Statement and 
                    Brief Survey 
        Author:     T. Schmidt, M. Waehlisch,
                    G. Fairhurst
        Status:     Informational
        Date:       February 2010
        Mailbox:    schmidt@informatik.haw-hamburg.de, 
                    mw@link-lab.net, 
                    gorry@erg.abdn.ac.uk
        Pages:      37
        Characters: 92632
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-irtf-mobopts-mmcastv6-ps-09.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5757.txt

This document discusses current mobility extensions to IP-layer
multicast.  It describes problems arising from mobile group
communication in general, the case of multicast listener mobility,
and problems for mobile senders using Any Source Multicast and 
Source-Specific Multicast.  Characteristic aspects of multicast 
routing and deployment issues for fixed IPv6 networks are summarized.
Specific properties and interplays with the underlying network access are 
surveyed with respect to the relevant technologies in the wireless 
domain.  It outlines the principal approaches to multicast mobility, 
together with a comprehensive exploration of the mobile multicast 
problem and solution space.  This document concludes with a conceptual 
road map for initial steps in standardization for use by future mobile
multicast protocol designers.  This document is a product of the IP
Mobility Optimizations (MobOpts) Research Group.  This document is not an 
Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational 
purposes.

This document is a product of the IRTF.

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