A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : DHCP Option for IPTV Source address Author(s) : Ramakanth Josyula Filename : draft-josyula-dhc-multicast-02.txt Pages : 8 Date : 2013-10-02 Abstract: Internet Protocol Television(IPTV) is a system facilitating transmission of television channels as multicast streams use dedicated multicast group addresses in IP networks. Internet Group Multicast Protocol(IGMP) is widely used for the communication between hosts and routers to deliver the multicast streams in the IPv4 networks. Similarly,Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol (MLD)is used for the communication between the hosts and routers to deliver the multicast streams in the IPv6 networks. It is also possible for the networks to distinguish these multicast streams not only by their destination multicast group but also by the source IP address of the streams. IGMP version-3 and MLD version-2 are protocols that allow the hosts to inform the neighboring routers about their desire to receive the multicast streams from specific source IP addresses. This needs a mechanism to supply the available multicast source address information to the hosts and the hosts also should be strictly implemented with the source specific multicasting aware protocols such as above mentioned IGMPv3 or MLDv2. This document describes a new DHCP option which can addresses these issues. In addition to this, the document also describes about the advantages in the networks by implementing this option. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-josyula-dhc-multicast There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-josyula-dhc-multicast-02 A diff from the previous version is available at: http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-josyula-dhc-multicast-02 Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt
