Hi!

Refreshing this message for the pim WG.  I haven’t seen any replies or
opinions. :-(

Please take a look:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6lo-multicast-registration/


Thanks!

Alvaro.



On November 10, 2021 at 10:49:15 AM, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) (
[email protected]) wrote:

Dear all:

With draft-ietf-6lo-multicast-registration, 6lo is extending the IPv6
stateful address autoconfiguration (RFC 8505/8928) to express that the node
is accepting traffic for an anycast address and to subscribe to multicast
addresses.

The model is a proactive push from the device, compared to MLD reports that
pulls from the router. There are a number for reasons for doing this that
way in energy conscious networks, where multicast and broadcasts are mostly
prohibited, and devices sleep most of their time. Also the incremental code
on constrained devices that operate IPv6 ND as per RFC 8505 is very
minimal.

The proactive model allows the router to inject the MAC and IP information
in a network overlay routing or a proxy function in a fashion that is more
reliable and economical than the classical snooping of MLD and ND. This is
why it is used in RFC 8929 for proxy ND, and proposed for use in RIFT and
now eVPN as the IGP-agnostic UNI between the host and the router.

Since we are extending the registration from unicast to anycast and
multicast, Erik and Alvaro suggested that we raise the topic on this list
as well.

I would certainly be happy to help folks are interesting in drafting how
subscriptions learned from this new work can be injected in PIM as well.

Keep safe;

Pascal

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