Re: [MBONED] Question about multicast address to be used in documentation and example

On Oct 15, 2008, at 10:14 AM, Stig Venaas wrote:

> Maglione Roberta wrote:
>> Hello,
>>        I'm currently cleaning up my multicast ietf draft but I have  
>> the problem:
>> the ietf tool for draft error check is complaing, with the error  
>> below, because in the draft I'm using a multicast add (from the  
>> Administratively Scoped block) as an example.
>>
>> "Found possible IPv4 address '239.23.2.2' in position 55; this  
>> doesn't match RFC3330's suggested 192.0.2.0/24 address range. "
>>
>> I checked RFC3330, it proposes an IPv4 range to be used in  
>> documentation and example but only for unicast, I could not find an  
>> equivalent range for multicast. Does this range exist for  
>> multicast? Or should I remove the example from the draft?
>
> There is a draft draft-ietf-idr-as-documentation-reservation-00.txt
> proposing ASNs 64496 - 64511 for documentation. This is only a draft.
> But if this is approved, then I guess you could use GLOP addresses
> based on those for documentation :)
>
> Or if perhaps draft-ietf-mboned-ipv4-uni-based-mcast-05.txt ever gets
> approved you could use unicast based addresses from 192.0.2.0/24 or
> something...
>
> But I guess assigning a specific multicast prefix would be good,

Do you mean a specific prefix just for examples, like "example.com" ?  
Obviously, that couldn't
come from 239/8, but I like the idea of setting aside an example range  
in eGLOP, which could be added to

draft-ietf-mboned-rfc3171bis-04

Do others on list agree with this idea ?

Regards
Marshall

>
>
> Stig
>
>> Thank you in advance.
>> Best Regards,
>> Roberta
>>
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