[Roll] RFC 7731 on Multicast Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (MPL)

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        RFC 7731

        Title:      Multicast Protocol for Low-Power and 
                    Lossy Networks (MPL) 
        Author:     J. Hui, R. Kelsey
        Status:     Standards Track
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       February 2016
        Mailbox:    jonhui@nestlabs.com, 
                    richard.kelsey@silabs.com
        Pages:      29
        Characters: 63216
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-roll-trickle-mcast-12.txt

        URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7731

        DOI:        http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7731

This document specifies the Multicast Protocol for Low-Power and
Lossy Networks (MPL), which provides IPv6 multicast forwarding in
constrained networks.  MPL avoids the need to construct or maintain
any multicast forwarding topology, disseminating messages to all MPL
Forwarders in an MPL Domain.

MPL has two modes of operation.  One mode uses the Trickle algorithm
to manage control-plane and data-plane message transmissions and is
applicable for deployments with few multicast sources.  The other
mode uses classic flooding.  By providing both modes and
parameterization of the Trickle algorithm, an MPL implementation can
be used in a variety of multicast deployments and can trade between
dissemination latency and transmission efficiency.

This document is a product of the Routing Over Low power and Lossy networks Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard.

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