Name: draft-ietf-magma-mrdisc-03
Title: Multicast Router Discovery
State: Pending
Authors: Brian Haberman, Jim Martin
Group: Multicast & Anycast Group Membership (magma)
Date: 2004-10-21
The concept of Internet Group Membership Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast
Listener Discovery (MLD) snooping requires the ability to identify the
location of multicast routers. Since snooping is not standardized, there
are many mechanisms in use to identify the multicast routers. However, this
can lead to interoperability issues between multicast routers and snooping
switches from different vendors. This document introduces a general
mechanism that allows for the discovery of multicast routers. This new
mechanism, Multicast Router Discovery (MRD), introduces a standardized
means of identifying multicast routers without a dependency on particular
multicast routing protocols.
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