Brian,

thanks for the review!

The objective of the document is a joint deployment prescription of two standard protocols (PMIP + IGMP/MLD Proxy) to enable mobile multicast reception. No new protocol mechanisms are defined.

The section you are citing reports on checking the state of current MLD-Proxy implementations, mainly from the linux public domain. They were indeed incomplete, but people from the WG reported on more mature implementations by Juniper (which we didn't have access to).

Best,

Thomas

On 15.01.2011 05:10, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
Please see attached review.





draft-ietf-multimob-pmipv6-base-solution-07-carpenter.txt


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Document: draft-ietf-multimob-pmipv6-base-solution-07.txt
Reviewer: Brian Carpenter
Review Date: 2011-01-15
IETF LC End Date: ?? (no Gen-ART LC review)
IESG Telechat date: 2011-01-20

Summary: Ready, but is it ready for BCP?
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I have very little time for a full review this week, but the document seems
technically competent and complete. However, I don't find enough information
in the tracker writeup to know whether it is really ready for BCP rather than
(say) Experimental status. It's complicated and operational in nature - is there
really enough operational experience for a BCP?

For example in an Appendix we find

    A brief experimental trial undertaken in February 2010 revealed the
    following divergent status of selected IGMP/MLD proxy
    implementations...

That isn't reassuring.
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