One more note. When we developed this draft, we focused on access network
delivery. There is a mesh-multicast draft which also solve the same
problem (i.e. Tunneling v4 mcast through v6-only network) in the core
network.


On 3/22/12 10:29 PM, "Lee, Yiu" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Hi Stig,
>
>DS-Lite was designed to deliver v4 unicast packets over v6-only network to
>v4 host. However when we started thinking about how to deliver multicast
>packets in the same network setup, we will have to tunnel all multicast
>packets over tunnels. This is very inefficient to use of AFTR. This is the
>motivation of dslite-multicast draft. However, you are absolutely right.
>This is a solution for tunneling IPv4 multicast through an IPv6-only
>network.
>
>B.R.,
>Yiu
>
>On 3/20/12 4:47 PM, "Stig Venaas" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>I'm a little bit puzzled by how this document talks about DS-Lite.
>>Isn't this an entirely generic solution for tunneling IPv4 multicast
>>through an IPv6-only network?
>>
>>Stig
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