The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Address Mapping of IPv6 multicast packets on Ethernet ' <draft-gundavelli-v6ops-l2-unicast-06.txt> as a Proposed Standard This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Ron Bonica. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gundavelli-v6ops-l2-unicast-06.txt Technical Summary When transmitting an IPv6 packet to a multicast group, the destination address in the link-layer header is typically set to the corresponding mapped address of the destination address from the IP header. However, it is not mandatory that the destination address in the link-layer header is always a mapped multicast equivalent of its IP destination address. There are various deployment scenarios where there a need to transmit an IPv6 multicast message as an unicast message on the link-layer. Unfortunately, the IPv6 specifications do not clearly state this. This document explicitly clarifies this point and makes such packet construct and transmission legal and valid. Working Group Summary The working group reviewed and discussed the draft. There was a point of rough consensus, but in general respondents said the document was relevant, useful, and appropriate. Document Quality The document is readable to a native speaker of English. It is very simple, and its two recommendations are clearly stated. Personel Fred Baker is shepherd. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
