The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Multicast Router Discovery ' <draft-ietf-magma-mrdisc-07.txt> as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Multicast & Anycast Group Membership Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Margaret Wasserman and Mark Townsley. Technical Summary  The concept of Internet Group Membership Protocol (IGMP) and  Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) snooping requires the ability  to identify the location of multicast routers. Since snooping  is not standardized, there are many mechanisms in use to  identify the multicast routers. However, this can lead to  interoperability issues between multicast routers and snooping  switches from different vendors.  This document introduces a general mechanism that allows for the  discovery of multicast routers. This new mechanism, Multicast  Router Discovery (MRD), introduces a standardized means of  identifying multicast routers without a dependency on particular  multicast routing protocols. Working Group Summary The working group strongly supports the advancement of the Multicast Router Discovery draft. Protocol Quality There were review comments for this document during WG discussion in both IDMP and MAGMA and clarification comments during WG last call. This document was reviewed for the IESG by Margaret Wasserman. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
