@misc{rfc3956, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 3956, howpublished = {RFC 3956}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC3956}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3956}, author = {Brian Haberman and Pekka Savola}, title = {{Embedding the Rendezvous Point (RP) Address in an IPv6 Multicast Address}}, pagetotal = 18, year = 2004, month = nov, abstract = {This memo defines an address allocation policy in which the address of the Rendezvous Point (RP) is encoded in an IPv6 multicast group address. For Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM), this can be seen as a specification of a group-to-RP mapping mechanism. This allows an easy deployment of scalable inter-domain multicast and simplifies the intra-domain multicast configuration as well. This memo updates the addressing format presented in RFC 3306. {[}STANDARDS-TRACK{]}}, }