RE: Issue 29: AD REVIEW: IPv6 Node Requirements

[john.loughney@nokia.com]

Jari,

> > 4.6 Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6 - RFC2710
> > 
> >    If an application is going to join any-source multicast group
> >    addresses, it SHOULD implement MLDv1. When MLD is used, the rules in
> >    "Source Address Selection for the Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD)
> >    Protocol" [RFC-3590] MUST be followed.
> > 
> > 
> >>>If I understand correctly, these nodes could support either
> >>>MLDv1 or MLDv2.
> 
> The document already allows either MLDv1 or MLDv2 to
> be used. And yes, MLDv2 is backwards compatible to
> MLDv1 as John pointed out.
> 
> Perhaps the only question that I have left is... whether
> IPv6 nodes should support MLDv2 instead of MLDv1. The
> node requirements document and the MLDv2 draft intro
> gives the impression that the only difference is
> source-specific filtering. Then the current node
> reqs rules make sense. But Appendix B of the MLDv2
> draft seems to list a number of other modifications,
> including some enhancements to robustness. Are these
> important? I'm not an expert enough to determine that.

Appendicies are non-normative, so I think that we don't need to
worry about it in the Node Requirements document, though 
I am by no means an MLD expert.

John

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