Subject: [Softwires] draft-ietf-softwire-mesh-multicast-05.txt

From: Behcet Sarikaya <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:00:16 -0500

Hi Authors,

If Softwire mesh means packets from the host to one CE are directly routed
to the destination CE, I am puzzled how multicast can be supported in such
a network?

May be my mesh network understanding is wrong?

Regards,

Behcet

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:19 AM, <[email-masked]> wrote:

>
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
> directories.
>  This draft is a work item of the Softwires Working Group of the IETF.
>
>         Title           : Softwire Mesh Multicast
>         Author(s)       : Mingwei Xu
>                           Yong Cui
>                           Jianping Wu
>                           Shu Yang
>                           Chris Metz
>                           Greg Shepherd
>         Filename        : draft-ietf-softwire-mesh-multicast-05.txt
>         Pages           : 21
>         Date            : 2013-07-15
>
> Abstract:
>    The Internet needs to support IPv4 and IPv6 packets.  Both address
>    families and their attendant protocol suites support multicast of the
>    single-source and any-source varieties.  As part of the transition to
>    IPv6, there will be scenarios where a backbone network running one IP
>    address family internally (referred to as internal IP or I-IP) will
>    provide transit services to attached client networks running another
>    IP address family (referred to as external IP or E-IP).  It is
>    expected that the I-IP backbone will offer unicast and multicast
>    transit services to the client E-IP networks.
>
>    Softwire Mesh is a solution to E-IP unicast and multicast support
>    across an I-IP backbone.  This document describes the mechanisms for
>    supporting Internet-style multicast across a set of E-IP and I-IP
>    networks supporting softwire mesh.
>
>
> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-softwire-mesh-multicast
>
> There's also a htmlized version available at:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-softwire-mesh-multicast-05
>
> A diff from the previous version is available at:
> http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-softwire-mesh-multicast-05
>
>
> Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
> ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
>
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