Hi Authors, If Softwire mesh means packets from the host to one CE are directly routed to the destination CE, I am puzzled how multicast can be supported in such a network?
May be my mesh network understanding is wrong? Regards, Behcet On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:19 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts > directories. > This draft is a work item of the Softwires Working Group of the IETF. > > Title : Softwire Mesh Multicast > Author(s) : Mingwei Xu > Yong Cui > Jianping Wu > Shu Yang > Chris Metz > Greg Shepherd > Filename : draft-ietf-softwire-mesh-multicast-05.txt > Pages : 21 > Date : 2013-07-15 > > Abstract: > The Internet needs to support IPv4 and IPv6 packets. Both address > families and their attendant protocol suites support multicast of the > single-source and any-source varieties. As part of the transition to > IPv6, there will be scenarios where a backbone network running one IP > address family internally (referred to as internal IP or I-IP) will > provide transit services to attached client networks running another > IP address family (referred to as external IP or E-IP). It is > expected that the I-IP backbone will offer unicast and multicast > transit services to the client E-IP networks. > > Softwire Mesh is a solution to E-IP unicast and multicast support > across an I-IP backbone. This document describes the mechanisms for > supporting Internet-style multicast across a set of E-IP and I-IP > networks supporting softwire mesh. > > > The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-softwire-mesh-multicast > > There's also a htmlized version available at: > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-softwire-mesh-multicast-05 > > A diff from the previous version is available at: > http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-softwire-mesh-multicast-05 > > > Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: > ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ > > _______________________________________________ > Softwires mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/softwires >
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