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

The AD said draft-ietf-mboned-64-multicast-address-format has been moved to WG 6man.

Tina

On Jun 28, 2012, at 2:58 PM, "Stig Venaas" <stig@venaas.com> wrote:

> The draft draft-ietf-mboned-64-multicast-address-format specifies as you
> know, a new flag to indicate that an IPv4 multicast address is embedded.
> This is useful for translators (and maybe other devices) that can then
> extract the IPv4 address and doing operations as needed on that address.
> 
> I would like to present a possible alternative, and hear your thoughts.
> What if instead, when the group address is specified in a PIM join, or
> an MLD report, there was a flag as part of the PIM/MLD message that
> indicated that an IPv4 address is embedded?
> 
> A new draft describing this is available at
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kumar-mboned-64mcast-embedded-address-00
> 
> What do you think? Might this be an alternative? Are there other
> cases (apart from receiving a PIM join or an MLD report), where we
> need to know that an IPv4 address is embedded in the group address?
> 
> Stig
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