On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Delving a bit deeper into this: > > > 1) What is the correct level of support for MLD? > > Should MLDv2 be supported as well? > > I have gotten comments stating: > > MLD should be Conditionally Mandatory based on the use of multicast > "applications" on the node (where the multicast group is of scope > 2 or higher, except the all-nodes group). A primary IPv6 multicast > application is Neighbor Discovery (all those solicited-node mcast > addresses must be joined). > > and from Brian Haberman: > > MLDv2 has been submitted to the IESG. Given that, MLDv2 is the > correct level of support. > > So I think I should add text conformant to the above.
I might a bit hesitant to add a MUST for MLDv2, as MLDv2 is new and much more code than MLDv1; rather like MUST for MLDv1 as above, SHOULD for overall MLDv2. Depends on how often you want to revise the doc, I guess. -- Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall" Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
