Re: Status of subnet-local multicast?

Kerry Lynn <kerlyn@ieee.org> Wed, 27 June 2012 18:47 UTC

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Subject: Re: Status of subnet-local multicast?
From: Kerry Lynn <kerlyn@ieee.org>
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On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Stig Venaas <stig@venaas.com> wrote:

> On 6/27/2012 10:13 AM, Kerry Lynn wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> RFC 3484 section 3.1 defines "subnet-local (0x03)" multicast scope, but
>> later RFC 4291 section 2.7 defines this multicast scope value as reserved.
>> Can I ask if the later interpretation is the correct one?
>>
>> I ask in the context of e.g.
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/**draft-lynn-homenet-site-mdns<http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lynn-homenet-site-mdns>
>> where we need a scope greater than link-local in order to span a 6LoWPAN
>> subnet, but less than site-local in order to reserve the property "Each
>> interface
>> belongs to exactly one zone of each possible scope." for future site-local
>> protocols that might include the 6LoWPAN router port.
>>
>> Should I select admin-local scope, or is subnet-local scope available
>> for use?
>>
>
> I've always been a bit curious why it got marked as reserved. It was
> (unassigned) in RFC 2373, but reserved in RFC 3513. I don't remember
> any discussion on this.
>
> It seems 4 admin-local would be appropriate then. Unless perhaps if 3
> is somehow reserved to allow for maybe future use like this...
>
> Perhaps it was originally discussed as an analog to IPv4 subnet broadcast,
but that usage was later thought unnecessary.  Hopefully an IPv6 historian
will chime in...

Thanks, -K-

Stig
>
>
>> Thanks, -K-
>>
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