Re: [Roll] [roll] #128: Trickle multicast could be considered in other applications?

["Dijk, Esko" <[e-mail]>]

>    adrian> - do the hosts need to be in any way aware
>    adrian> that their mcast is supported by MPL?
>
> At some point the answer has been yes and at other points it has been no, and I guess I have to back to the document to remember what we concluded.

I believe that MPL-04 does not answer this, and perhaps even cannot, because it is out of scope in the current text.
It is not described how a non-MPL host can 'inject' its multicast packet into an MPL domain, or how an MPL Forwarder should 'demux' a multicast packet out from the MPL Domain so that nearby listening non-MPL hosts can receive the multicast.

Solutions for this exist that require a host to be aware of MPL, and solutions exist as well that don't require this.

If Section 3 (Applicability Statement) could just mention this, plus the other questions from ticket #128 that are now answered, I believe the ticket can be closed.

regards,
Esko


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