%% You should probably cite draft-karstens-pim-ipv6-zeroconf-assignment-01 instead of this revision. @techreport{karstens-pim-ipv6-zeroconf-assignment-00, number = {draft-karstens-pim-ipv6-zeroconf-assignment-00}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-karstens-pim-ipv6-zeroconf-assignment/00/}, author = {Nathan Karstens and Dino Farinacci and Mike McBride}, title = {{Zero-Configuration Assignment of IPv6 Multicast Addresses}}, pagetotal = 7, year = , month = , day = , abstract = {Marine networks contain a combination of sensors, controls, and displays. The latest marine industry standards require IPv6. The most optimal way to distribute sensor data to all displays on the network is multicast. However, use of traditional switches can be problematic (overwhelm links) when both high-bandwidth and low- bandwidth devices are installed. To solve this problem, the network requires switches with multicast snooping. However, source-specific multicast (SSM) is not supported on marine switches so the destination address is the only way to differentiate multicast streams. This limitation creates several challenges including with the pre-allocation of addresses. The solution, described in this draft, provides a decentralized, zero-configuration method for dynamically assigning multicast addresses through defining an extension to the multicast portion of the IPv6 addressing architecture along with a new IANA registry.}, }