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

[Behcet Sarikaya <[e-mail]>]

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-address-format
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There's also a htmlized version available at:
>>>>
>>>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-mboned-64-multicast-address-format-03
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> A diff from the previous version is available at:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-mboned-64-multicast-address-format-03
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
>>>> ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
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