RFC 6308

"Overview of the Internet Multicast Addressing Architecture", June 2011

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6308.txt
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Status:

INFORMATIONAL

Obsoletes:

RFC 2908

Author:

P. Savola

Stream:

IETF

Source:

mboned (ops)

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Abstract

The lack of up-to-date documentation on IP multicast address allocation and assignment procedures has caused a great deal of confusion. To clarify the situation, this memo describes the allocation and assignment techniques and mechanisms currently (as of this writing) in use. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.