Re: [MBONED] draft-ietf-mboned-64-multicast-address-format-03.txt

["Lee, Yiu" <[e-mail]>]

Hi Behcet,

Note taken. Thanks!


On 8/14/12 12:54 PM, "Behcet Sarikaya" <[e-mail]> wrote:

>On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Stig Venaas <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> On 13.08.2012 14:46, Brian Haberman wrote:
>>>
>>> On 8/13/12 4:21 PM, Behcet Sarikaya wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi authors,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the revised draft, I find that the revision is in the right
>>>> direction.
>>>>
>>>> I am confused on the prefix lengths:
>>>> on Figure 2,
>>>> ffxx:8000:0:abc::/96
>>>> while in Section 3.1
>>>> ffxx:8000::/20
>>>>
>>>
>>> The x's correspond to the flags and scope fields within the multicast
>>> address.  Take a look at:
>>>
>>>
>>> 
>>>http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-multicast-addresses/ipv6-multicast-
>>>addresses.xml#ipv6-multicast-addresses-4
>>
>>
>> We have one minor issue here though. They cannot simply be IANA
>> allocations, since they would not have the transient bit set. In
>> this case, the idea is that it should work for flag nibble values
>> like 1, 3 and 7. Actually I believe the transient bit should always
>> be set for these groups.
>
>I think it will be better to clarify in the draft saying that xx
>corresponds to flgs and scop fields defined in RFC 3306.
>
>Regards,
>
>Behcet
>
>>
>> Stig
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> How come these are reserved prefixes?
>>>> What are the values that are reserved?
>>>>
>>>> If you look at RFC 6052, the unicast translation specification,
>>>> 64:ff9b::/96 is defined as the Well-Known Prefix. There are no x's in
>>>> the prefix definition.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Behcet
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 1:49 AM,  <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
>>>>> directories.
>>>>>   This draft is a work item of the MBONE Deployment Working Group of
>>>>> the IETF.
>>>>>
>>>>>          Title           : IPv6 Multicast Address With Embedded IPv4
>>>>> Multicast Address
>>>>>          Author(s)       : Mohamed Boucadair
>>>>>                            Jacni Qin
>>>>>                            Yiu L. Lee
>>>>>                            Stig Venaas
>>>>>                            Xing Li
>>>>>                            Mingwei Xu
>>>>>          Filename        :
>>>>> draft-ietf-mboned-64-multicast-address-format-03.txt
>>>>>          Pages           : 13
>>>>>          Date            : 2012-08-09
>>>>>
>>>>> Abstract:
>>>>>     This document reserves two IPv6 multicast prefixes to be used in
>>>>>the
>>>>>     context of IPv4-IPv6 interconnection.  The document specifies an
>>>>>     algorithmic translation of an IPv6 multicast address to a
>>>>>     corresponding IPv4 multicast address, and vice versa.  This
>>>>>     algorithmic translation can be used in both IPv4-IPv6
>>>>>translation or
>>>>>     encapsulation schemes.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
>>>>>
>>>>> 
>>>>>https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mboned-64-multicast-addres
>>>>>s-format
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> There's also a htmlized version available at:
>>>>>
>>>>> 
>>>>>http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-mboned-64-multicast-address-form
>>>>>at-03
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> A diff from the previous version is available at:
>>>>>
>>>>> 
>>>>>http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-mboned-64-multicast-addres
>>>>>s-format-03
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
>>>>> ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
>>>>>
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