Re: draft-ietf-mboned-64-multicast-address-format

Med,

The new draft appears to have many changes from the previous version.  It would be helpful if you could describe the changes.  This is usually done in the draft itself, but I didn't see it in -03.

Thanks,
Bob

On Aug 14, 2012, at 2:09 AM, <mohamed.boucadair@orange.com> <mohamed.boucadair@orange.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>  
> I'm initiating this thread in the hope of understanding the
> objections from the 6man WG and hopefully to make some progress for
> this document.  To initiate the discussion, below are provided some
> preliminary Q/A:
>  
> What is the scope of this document?
>    The document specifies an algorithmic translation of an IPv6
>    multicast address to a corresponding IPv4 multicast address, and
>    vice versa.  The document reserves two IPv6 multicast prefixes to
>    be used for that purpose.
>  
> What are these reserved prefixes?
>    *  ff3x:0:8000::/96 for SSM
>    *  ffxx:8000::/20 for ASM
>  
> Does this document update IPv6 addressing architecture?
>    No.
>  
> Is there a unicast counterpart of this proposal?
>    Yes, RFC6052.
>  
> What is the problem to be solved?
>    There are several use cases as detailed in [I-D.ietf-mboned-v4v6-
>    mcast-ps].  In particular, the following use cases are of
>    interest:
>    1.  An IPv6-only receiver wants to receive multicast content from
>        an IPv4-only source (6-4).
>    2.  An IPv4 receiver wants to join a multicast group in IPv4
>        domain via an IPv6-only network (4-6-4).
>  
> Are there solutions for the unicast counterpart of these use cases?
>    Yes; various solutions including:
>    1.  6-4: RFC6146
>    2.  4-6-4: RFC6333, RFC6346, ...
>  
> The latest version of the document is available at:
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-mboned-64-multicast-address-format-03.
>  
> Comments and suggestions are more than welcome.
>  
> Cheers,
> Med 
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