[secdir] secdir review of draft-gundavelli-v6ops-l2-unicast-04

Tom Yu <tlyu@MIT.EDU> Mon, 27 September 2010 03:21 UTC

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This document is a fairly straightforward clarification stating that
implementations may transmit an IPv6 multicast packet to a link-layer
unicast address.  The Security Considerations section states that the
change does not introduce any new vulnerabilities, and I agree.