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rfc-3956

Embedding the Rendezvous Point (RP) Address in an IPv6 Multicast Address

P. Savola, B. Haberman
date2004-11 streamIETF areaops wgmboned statusPROPOSED STANDARD pages18 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3956 doi10.17487/RFC3956
This memo defines an address allocation policy in which the address of the Rendezvous Point (RP) is encoded in an IPv6 multicast group address. For Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM), this can be seen as a specification of a group-to-RP mapping mechanism. This allows an easy deployment of scalable inter-domain multicast and simplifies the intra-domain multicast configuration as well. This memo updates the addressing format presented in RFC 3306. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

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