Hi Arun, Thanks for this work, I think it can be very useful for multicast application writers. Here are my comments :
Section 3: You say that the current behavior is implementation specific, could you give some references/samples ? My experience is that the multicast socket/setsockopt behavior is quite standard among implementations even is sometime functions arguments are changing... Section 4: I guess that you want to say "Multicast socket" instead of multicast client in this section. Reducing multicast applications to Client and Server with a destination and source port is quite dangerous here I think. That's of course the way how current simple multicast applications are working today but keeping the idea more general, multicast applications may contains several sockets corresponding to several protocols and joining several groups. Also, you use the words host/node/client independantly, I understand them as "sockets". Section 5: I dont think that I agree with this section, why should every applications should listens to some special multicast adresses ? I think my disagreement is a consequence of the socket/Application/client definition. Section 6: The behaviour is what I would expect from a system. Please note that the information present in this section is redundant with RFC3678. Cheers, Hoerdt Micka�l Arun Thulasi wrote: > Hello All, > > This is a request to review and comment on the internet draft > available at > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-arunt-ipv6-multicast-filtering-rules-00.txt > > > The draft is written to explain a set of behaviors in IPv6 > multicasting scenarios. Since the behavior seemed to vary on different > implementations, this draft specifies both the behaviors and puts > forth one of them as preferred. > > Do look into the draft and offer your comments. > > Thanks, > Arun T > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > [email protected] > Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
