The IESG has approved the following document: - 'IANA Guidelines for IPv4 Multicast Address Assignments ' <draft-ietf-mboned-rfc3171bis-08.txt> as a BCP This document is the product of the MBONE Deployment Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Ron Bonica and Dan Romascanu. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mboned-rfc3171bis-08.txt Technical Summary The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) (www.iana.org) is charged with allocating parameter values for fields in protocols which have been designed, created or are maintained by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). RFC 2780 provides the IANA guidance in the assignment of parameters for fields in newly developed protocols. This memo expands on section 4.4.2 of RFC 2780 and attempts to codify existing IANA practices and provide guidance in the assignment IPv4 multicast addresses. This document is a revision of RFC 3171, which it obsoletes. It also obsoletes RFC 3138, removes the "eGLOP" designation for the IANA reserved part of the GLOP address space (233.252.0.0 - 233.255.255.255), and converts that address range into AD HOC BLOCK III, thereby finally making this space available for assignment. The first /24 in this range, 233.252.0.0/24, is assigned as "MCAST-TEST-NET" for use in documentation and example code. Working Group Summary This document received extensive discussion and solid consensus from the WG; no major controversies were noted. Document Quality This memo attempts to codify existing IANA practices and provide guidance in the assignment IPv4 multicast addresses. This memo received extensive review from Alfred Hnes, Bharat Joshi primarily on textual issues, while Pekka Savola provided some substantive comments. The textual comments were addressed relatively easily in the document. The substantive concerns were incorporated in the document or will be addressed in a future policy document. Personnel Marshall Eubanks is the Document Shepherd, Ron Bonica is the Responsible Area Director. The IANA Expert(s) for the registries in this document are Marshall Eubanks (for Multicast Addresses). RFC Editor Notes OLD Network Working Group M. Cotton Internet-Draft L. Vegoda Obsoletes: 3171, 3138 ICANN (if approved) D. Meyer Intended status: BCP April 15, 2009 Expires: October 17, 2009 NEW Network Working Group M. Cotton Internet-Draft L. Vegoda Obsoletes: 3171, 3138 ICANN Updates: 2780 D.Meyer (if approved) April 15, 2009 Intended status: BCP Expires: October 17, 2009 _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
