RFC 6308: Overview of the Internet Multicast Addressing Architecture

The lack of up-to-date documentation on IP multicast address allocation and assignment procedures has caused a great deal of confusion. To clarify the…

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Outgoing relationships (20 related RFCs)

Obsoletes, Informative reference — RFC 2908: The Internet Multicast Address Allocation Architecture
Normative reference — RFC 4291: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
Normative reference — RFC 4607: Source-Specific Multicast for IP
Normative reference — RFC 2365: Administratively Scoped IP Multicast
Normative reference — RFC 3306: Unicast-Prefix-based IPv6 Multicast Addresses
Normative reference — RFC 3956: Embedding the Rendezvous Point (RP) Address in an IPv6 Multicast Address
Normative reference — RFC 3307: Allocation Guidelines for IPv6 Multicast Addresses
Normative reference — RFC 5771: IANA Guidelines for IPv4 Multicast Address Assignments
Normative reference — RFC 3180: GLOP Addressing in 233/8
Normative reference — RFC 4489: A Method for Generating Link-Scoped IPv6 Multicast Addresses
Normative reference — RFC 6034: Unicast-Prefix-Based IPv4 Multicast Addresses
Informative reference — RFC 3315: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
Informative reference — RFC 2131: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 2974: Session Announcement Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 2730: Multicast Address Dynamic Client Allocation Protocol (MADCAP)
Informative reference — RFC 2375: IPv6 Multicast Address Assignments
Informative reference — RFC 4893: BGP Support for Four-octet AS Number Space
Informative reference — RFC 2771: An Abstract API for Multicast Address Allocation
Informative reference — RFC 2909: The Multicast Address-Set Claim (MASC) Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 2776: Multicast-Scope Zone Announcement Protocol (MZAP)