Name: draft-fair-ipdvb-ar-02
Title: Address Resolution for IP datagrams over MPEG-2 networks
State: Active
Authors: Gorry Fairhurst, Marie-Jose Montpetit
Group: Individual Submissions (none)
Date: 2004-10-21
This document describes the current mechanisms to bind IPv4/IPv6 addresses
and flows to MPEG-2 Transport Streams (TS). For MPEG-2 systems to become
true subnetworks of the general Internet, methods are required to signal
IPv4/v6 addresses to the link receivers and transmitters; this is known as
Address Resolution (AR), or Neighbour Discovery (ND). Although AR is often
associated with Ethernet [RFC 803], it is essential to the operation of any
L2 network. In MPEG-2 networks, address resolution is a three level
process: the IP address is resolved to a NPA/MAC address, then associated
with a Packet ID (PID) and finally to a specific transmission multiplex.
Address resolution complements the higher layer resource discovery tools
that are used to advertise IP sessions. In this document the different
mechanisms used for address resolution for MPEG-2 are reviewed and their
compliance to AR requirements established.
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