Re: [MBONED] An alternative to draft-ietf-mboned-64-multicast-address-format?

Brian Haberman <brian@innovationslab.net> Mon, 02 July 2012 22:01 UTC

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Subject: Re: [MBONED] An alternative to draft-ietf-mboned-64-multicast-address-format?
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On 7/2/12 4:17 PM, Behcet Sarikaya wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Tom Taylor <tom.taylor.stds@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> It would be good to preserve the advantages of embedded RP. You certainly
>> can't have a well-known /96 and use embedded RP.
>
>
> Why not?
>
> If the translator is able to use an IPv6 Embedded-
> RP prefix to represent IPv4 ASM groups on the IPv6 network, no
> modifications are required
> to the configuration of other PIM routers.

This would not be a well-known 96-bit prefix.  The information 
describing the RP address (within that /96) would change based on which 
network is maintaining the RP.

Regards,
Brian