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Title : Light-weight Multicast Address Discovery Protocol
Author(s) : B. Williamson, et al.
Filename : draft-williamson-mboned-madp-00.txt
Pages : 15
Date : 2007-11-13
Light-weight, multicast address discovery mechanisms that can be used
by large scale client-server application deployments have been
virtually non-existent in the past. This has resulted in many
multicast client-server applications being deployed with "hard-coded"
multicast addresses within the client workstations in order to
provide "zero-configuration" operation of the application.
Unfortunately, many of these hard-coded multicast addresses are often
picked at random by the application developers resulting in multicast
address collisions with other protocols/applications or conflicts
with the multicast scoping plans of a network administrator. This
document describes a "light-weight" multicast address discovery
protocol that can be used by application clients to locate their
nearest application server using well-known scope relative multicast
addresses. Once located, the server can then communicate the
multicast address(es) that have been configured on the server by the
network administrator for use by the application. This permits
applications be written to operate in a flexible "near-zero"
configuration mode without having to use "hard-coded" addresses or
rely on any other network service other than multicast and the
existence of a nearby application server.
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