Multicast Router Discovery
RFC 4286
Discuss
Yes
No Objection
Note: This ballot was opened for revision 07 and is now closed.
(Thomas Narten; former steering group member) Discuss
> 1. For IPv4 it is the 16-bit one's complement of the one's > complement sum of the IGMP message, starting with the Type field. > For computing the checksum, the checksum field is set to 0. > Checksum does not include any IPv4 header fields. This seems like a bad design choice. Note that in the IPv6 case, the checksum does include a pseudo-header. Why not be consistent? > 1. The expiration of the periodic advertisement interval timer. > Note that it this timer is not strictly periodic since it is a > random number between MaxAdvertisementInterval and > MinAdvertisementInterval. this doesn't seem good. The spread between these values can be pretty wide, I think. What you want is an average value with some randomness to prevent syncrhonization. You don't want the value to be completely random between (say) 3 and 180 seconds.
(Bill Fenner; former steering group member) Yes
(Margaret Cullen; former steering group member) Yes
(Alex Zinin; former steering group member) (was Discuss) No Objection
(Allison Mankin; former steering group member) No Objection
(Bert Wijnen; former steering group member) No Objection
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QUestion: is there a MIB doc (in development) for the management variables
listed in the subsections of sect 3?
Section "9 Authors" may be a bit confusing with the other heading "Authors' Addresses" further down
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Comment from OPSDIR (Pekka) review:
Nit:
Although MRD messages could be sent as ICMP messages, the group
management protocols were chosen since this functionality is
multicast specific.
(Harald Alvestrand; former steering group member) No Objection
Reviewed by Mary Barnes, Gen-ART Her review: Draft is ready for publication as Proposed Standard.
(Jon Peterson; former steering group member) No Objection
(Russ Housley; former steering group member) (was Discuss) No Objection
(Sam Hartman; former steering group member) No Objection
(Scott Hollenbeck; former steering group member) No Objection