The IESG has received a request from the Multicast Mobility WG (multimob) to consider the following document: - 'Multicast Listener Extensions for MIPv6 and PMIPv6 Fast Handovers' <draft-ietf-multimob-fmipv6-pfmipv6-multicast-08.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 2014-09-30. 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 Fast handover protocols for Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) and Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) define mobility management procedures that support unicast communication at reduced handover latency. Fast handover base operations do not affect multicast communication, and hence do not accelerate handover management for native multicast listeners. Many multicast applications like IPTV or conferencing, though, comprise delay-sensitive real-time traffic and will benefit from fast handover completion. This document specifies extension of the Mobile IPv6 Fast Handovers (FMIPv6) and the Fast Handovers for Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PFMIPv6) protocols to include multicast traffic management in fast handover operations. This multicast support is provided first at the control plane by a management of rapid context transfer between access routers, second at the data plane by an optional fast traffic forwarding that may include buffering. An FMIPv6 access router indicates support for multicast using an updated Proxy Router Advertisements message format. This document updates RFC5568 "Mobile IPv6 Fast Handovers". The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-multimob-fmipv6-pfmipv6-multicast/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-multimob-fmipv6-pfmipv6-multicast/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
