New RFC 6224 on Multicast in PMIPv6 Domains

Our Internet Draft "Base Deployment for Multicast Listener Support in Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) Domains" has been published as RFC 6224. This is joint work with Ericsson and the first RFC of the IETF MULTIMOB group.

This document defines and analyses a lean deployment scenario for multicast receivers in a PMIPv6 domain:

            Base Deployment for Multicast Listener Support
                 in Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) Domains

Abstract

   This document describes deployment options for activating multicast
   listener functions in Proxy Mobile IPv6 domains without modifying
   mobility and multicast protocol standards.  Similar to home agents in
   Mobile IPv6, Local Mobility Anchors of Proxy Mobile IPv6 serve as
   multicast subscription anchor points, while Mobile Access Gateways
   provide Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) proxy functions.  In this
   scenario, mobile nodes remain agnostic of multicast mobility
   operations.  Support for mobile multicast senders is outside the
   scope of this document.

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