On 09/09/2015 21:14, "Brian E Carpenter" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>On 09/09/2015 20:07, FOSSATI, Thomas (Thomas) wrote:
>> Hi Brian,
>> 
>> On 02/09/2015 00:30, "Brian E Carpenter"
>><[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Minor Issues:
>> -------------
>> 
>> "  Figure 7 shows an example interaction... The IPv6
>>    multicast address used for site-local discovery is FF02::FD."
>> 
>> Where does ff02::fd come from? Is it just used as an example? That
>>isn't clear
>> in the text. (IANA lists it as "variable scope allocation".)
>> 
>> FF02::FD is the link-local "all CoAP Nodes" (see
>>https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7252#section-12.8 and
>>http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-multicast-addresses/ipv6-multicast-a
>>ddresses.xhtml).
>
>Oh. I find the registry very confusing. It would help ignorant people like
>me if the sentence read
>
>"The IPv6 multicast address used for CoAP site-local discovery is
>FF02::FD."
>
>except that there *is* a bug in that sentence: ff02:: is the link-local
>range,
>site-local would be ff05::fd. So it should be
>
>"The IPv6 multicast address used for CoAP link-local discovery is
>FF02::FD."

Fixed, thanks.

Cheers, t

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