The IESG has approved following document: - 'Socket Interface Extensions for Multicast Source Filters ' <draft-ietf-magma-msf-api-05.txt> as an Informational RFC This document is the product of the Multicast & Anycast Group Membership Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Margaret Wasserman and Thomas Narten. Technical Summary This document specifies new socket options and functions to manage source filters for IP Multicast group memberships. It also defines the socket structures to provide input and output arguments to these new APIs. These extensions are designed to provide access to the source filtering features, while introducing a minimum of change into the system and providing complete compatibility for existing multicast applications. Working Group Summary This document is a work item of the Multicast & Anycast Group Membership (magma) WG. Protocol Quality This document was reviewed for the IESG by Margaret Wasserman. RFC Editor Note Please remove the last sentence of the first paragraph of the abstract, as follows: OLD: IGMPv3 for IPv4 and MLDv2 for IPv6 add the capability for applications to express source filters on multicast group memberships, which allows receiver applications to determine the set of senders (sources) from which to accept multicast traffic. This capability also simplifies support of one-to-many type multicast applications. It is expected that in the near future, the same capability will be available in IPv6 as well. NEW: IGMPv3 for IPv4 and MLDv2 for IPv6 add the capability for applications to express source filters on multicast group memberships, which allows receiver applications to determine the set of senders (sources) from which to accept multicast traffic. This capability also simplifies support of one-to-many type multicast applications.
