The IESG has received a request from the Multicast Mobility WG (multimob) to consider the following document: - 'PMIPv6 multicast handover optimization by the Subscription Information Acquisition through the LMA (SIAL)' <draft-ietf-multimob-handover-optimization-05.txt> as Experimental RFC The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2013-11-01. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract This document specifies an experimental multicast handover optimization mechanism for Proxy Mobile IPv6 to accelerate the delivery of multicast traffic to mobile nodes after handovers. The mechanism is based on speeding up the acquisition of mobile nodes' multicast context by the mobile access gateways. To do that, extensions to the current Proxy Mobile IPv6 protocol are proposed. These extensions are not only applicable to the base solution for multicast support in Proxy Mobile IPv6, but they can also be applied to other solutions developed to avoid the tunnel convergence problem. Furthermore, these extensions are also independent of the role played by the mobile access gateway within the multicast network (either acting as multicast listener discovery proxy or multicast router). The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-multimob-handover-optimization/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-multimob-handover-optimization/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
