Multicast Address Allocation (MALLOC) Working Group - Documents
Working-Group Documents
The following documents describe the WG's current views on a multicast
address allocation architecture:
- The Internet Multicast Address Allocation Architecture
- D. Thaler, M. Handley, D. Estrin
- RFC 2908
ASCII
- Status: Informational
- Abstract API for Multicast Address Allocation
- R. Finlayson
- RFC 2771
ASCII
- Status: Informational
- Multicast Address Dynamic Client Allocation Protocol
- B. Patel, M. Shah, S. Hanna
- This is
the
mechanism by which addresses may be obtained
from a Multicast Address Allocation Server.
(Formerly known as MDHCP.)
- RFC 2730
ASCII
- Status: Proposed Standard
- MADCAP Multicast Scope Nesting State Option
- R. Kermode
- RFC 2907
ASCII
- Status: Proposed Standard
- Multicast Address Allocation Protocol (AAP)
- M. Handley and S. Hanna
- draft -04 (June 2000): ASCII
- Status: Withdrawn (due to lack of community interest and serious fixes needed)
- Multicast Address Allocation MIB
- D. Thaler
- RFC 3559
ASCII
- Status: Proposed Standard
- The Multicast Address Set Claim (MASC) Protocol
- D. Estrin, R. Govindan, M. Handley, S. Kumar, P. Radoslavov, D. Thaler
- RFC 2909
ASCII
- Status: Experimental
- Allocation Guidelines for IPv6 Multicast Addresses
- B. Haberman
- RFC 3307
ASCII
- Status: Proposed Standard
Documents Submitted to the MALLOC WG
- Address utilization in the MASC/BGMP architecture
- G. Phillips and M. Smirnov
- draft -00 (July 1998):
ASCII
- Status: Unknown
Related Documents on Multicast Address Allocation
- GLOP Addressing in 233/8
- D. Meyer and P. Lothberg
- RFC 2770 (February 1999):
ASCII
- Status: Experimental
- IP Version 6 Multicast Addressing Architecture
- B. Haberman
- draft -00 (December 1999):
ASCII
- Status: Needs discussion by IPNG WG (Action: WG)
Other Related Documents
- Administratively Scoped IP Multicast
- D. Meyer
- RFC 2365: ASCII
- Status: Best Current Practice
- Multicast-Scope Zone Announcement Protocol (MZAP)
- M. Handley, D. Thaler, R. Kermode
- RFC 2776: ASCII
- Status: Proposed Standard
- Border Gateway Multicast Protocol
- D. Thaler, D. Estrin, D. Meyer
- This is closely linked to the multicast address allocation ideas
above.
- draft -00 (January 2000):
ASCII
- Status: BGMP Working Group document
- Scoped Address Discovery Protocol (SADP)
- R. Kermode, D. Thaler
- draft -01 (January 1999):
ASCII
- Status: MBoneD Working Group document
- On Scalable Multimedia Conferencing Systems
- M. Handley (PhD thesis)
- Chapter 6 is relevant for address allocation
- Postscript
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